Jon Corbet on Red Hat and Desktop
Seen at LWN today (no permalink — what the heck?):
Red Hat's desktop team has posted an item saying that the company has no plans to offer a "traditional desktop product" anytime soon.
Say what? The referenced item says:
[W]e have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future.
Umm... RHEL desktop is doing quite well, all we're saying we're not committed to selling it at Best Buy. Not sure how this debacle has happened. Jon was probably short on coffee.
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