On 5/23/07, Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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/ > > -- > Ted Roche > Ted Roche & Associates, LLC > http://www.tedroche.com > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
