Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora

[Jon Stanley]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Steven Moix <steven.moix at axianet.ch> wrote:

> The real and simple answer to this LTS problem would be for RedHat to offer
> RHEL workstation for free (yes, the killed product), without support. The
> maintenance effort has already been made for RHEL and you are not losing

I'm not sure what you're talking about here - RHEL Client is not a
"killed" product. It's often misunderstood from Red Hat's
announcements wrt this that they have killed any desktop product. This
is simply untrue. Repeat after me:

RED HAT IS NOT ABANDONING THE DESKTOP!

What they *have* abandoned, however, is the notion that they can
compete in the consumer desktop space. This was quite a sound business
decision on their part, IMHO. The costs to support a consumer-focused
desktop distribution simply don't fit in the Red Hat model.