Well, its gonna be kinda tough for Red Hat to gain market share of the desktop when they are not going to support Red Hat 9.0 as of early 2004. In fact they are moving solely to their Enterprise Edition and will no longer release any more commercial desk top versions of Red Hat Linux. There is however, their open source project called Fedora which is aimed at developers as an open source effort. The Fedora project is only available by download (it used to be available by CD for purchase but even that has already been phased out). See
Red Hat for more information.
Also, from the Red Hat site
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Q: Do you feel Linux will ever be a viable desktop OS? Or will it stay in the role of server OS? What work is Red Hat doing on this?
There are many different ways of describing a "desktop OS." One scenario is that of the power computer user, someone that needs to be able to run several multi-tasking programs at the same time. The person is heavily dependent on the Internet and is interested in tweaking their operating environment heavily to suit their tastes.
A second scenario might be the "Engineering Workstation," where a particular CAD/CAM or IDE (Integrated Development Environment) application is usually the sole focus, with other graphical programs like a web browser or e-mail client in use the rest of the time.
A third scenario is a computer interface for the non-technical user, one that insulates them from the underlying system and tries to simplify as many tasks as possible.
Red Hat Linux already excels in the first two scenarios, and continues to gain more and more converts as time progresses and Legacy UNIX platforms are phased out. Students, Scientists, and Engineers are all realizing the power of using Red Hat Linux as a desktop OS.
For the third scenario, Linux in general (including Red Hat Linux) is currently not the best fit.