On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 03:33, Graydon wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:02:05AM +0000, Philip Wyett scripsit: > > Seems the enterprise line for certain things will be good. However for > > multimedia and anything game/3d related - it's a non-starter. > > Why on the wide earth would you expect it to be? > > Enterprise is not a business desktop OS; it's a server OS, rackmount > boxes without monitors in machine rooms somewhere. >
Well I'm talking about the 'Enterprise WorkStation' version and Red Hat describes it as "Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS is the desktop/client member of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux family.". Seems very desktop to me, how about you? > The 'professional workstation' is the place you'll see 3D capability in > a costly-support-version for large enterprises, that's probably one of > the reasons to differentiate like that. Redhat has very specifically > not gone after the end user desktop market, and I think they're right > not to do that just yet. > We could have the argument between what comes in 'basic', 'professional' and 'enterprise' all day. However, by the looks of it Red Hat is indeed pitching squarely at the corporate office desktop rather than anywhere else, which is a shame IMHO. Regards Phil -- ICQ: 135463069 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Public key: http://www.philipwyett.dsl.pipex.com/gpg/public_key.txt --
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