I was looking at the search trend between Redhat and Ubuntu from the Philippines[1] earlier today and I'm wondering if the free branded live distribution CDs gives it mass appeal? I remember the time when (santa) Jerome gave a lot of sleeved live CDs and everyone gladly took not one but 2 or 3! (maybe for re-gifting). Heck, even Ubuntu is a popular search keyword at Redmond, WA[2] ! ;-P
is Ubuntu eating RH's lunch on the desktop? Nope, since the money is still on the server market[3] but Ubuntu could make the desktop strategy work although nobody said it will be easy[4]. Happy GNU Year guys! [1] http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu%2C+redhat&ctab=0&geo=PH&geor=all&date=all&sort=0 [2] http://xkcd.com/522/ [3] http://www.press.redhat.com/2008/04/16/whats-going-on-with-red-hat-desktop-systems-an-update/ [4] http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/10/canonical-is-not-cash-flow-pos.html On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Harish Pillay <[email protected]>wrote: > > In my blog post today, I describe how Ubuntu's new Network Manager > autoconnects to the 3G mobile networks of Globe, Smart, and Sun: [...] > > Just a point of clarification: Network Manager is a project lead by > Red Hat/Fedora and Suse developers. > Of course it is open and is being used and included in other > distributions - the way FOSS is to be spread. > [....] > -- > Harish Pillay [email protected] gpg id: 746809E3 > fingerprint: F7F5 5CCD 25B9 FC25 303E 3DA2 0F80 27DB 7468 09E3 >
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