Hey, How 'bout them Red-Hatters!

[G.O.]

On 5/23/07, Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com> wrote:
> Has anyone got a clue what Red Hat is promoting with the "Global Desktop?"
>
> Just when I thought we were going to see Fedora Core/Extras united, a
> clear unified enterprise message out of Red Hat, they zig again.
>

  No ziggin'. Core/Extras merge has happened, there won't be Fedora
Core 7, there will be Fedora 7. See:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/CoreExtrasMerge

About the Global Desktop, the link Patrick sent sums it up.

 Thanks,
  Gurhan

> "Today Red Hat is announcing the upcoming availability of Red Hat Global
> Desktop. Global Desktop breaks through the price and performance
> barriers that have prevented many people from realizing the full
> benefits of state-of-the-art information technology. Red Hat and
> community members around the world recognized the need for a better
> solution to serve their local government and small business customers.
> This required removing the limitations that traditional desktop
> solutions imposed. In response, Red Hat developed the Global Desktop,
> which delivers a modern-user experience with an enterprise-class suite
> of productivity applications. Red Hat collaborated closely with Intel to
> enable the design, support and distribution of Global Desktop to be as
> close as possible to the customer. In addition, Red Hat and Intel are
> taking advantage of Global Desktop's high performance and minimal
> hardware requirements to support a wide range of Intel's current and
> future desktop platforms, including the Classmate, Affordable, Community
> and Low-Cost PC lines."
>
> http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/global_desktop.html
>
> and
>
> http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/05/14/red-hat-global-desktop/
>
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