Re: Red Hat Introduces Desktop Linux Competitor

[jim tate <mickeyboa sbcglobal net>]

Alan Cox wrote:

> On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 09:14:57AM -0500, jim tate wrote:
>  
>
> > Why is it, that Redhat so dislikes KDE? the number one
> > choice of linux users.
> >    
>
> I'm not sure whether KDE is the number one choice of users (or in fact
> whether most users actually care/know). I am sure Red Hat doesn't "dislike"
> KDE.
>
> For business you have to care about stuff like supportability, what business
> wants and business requirements - like accessibility for disabled users.
>
>  
>
> > I read this article, and I assumed that they will still offer KDE
> > as a optional install in Fedora2.
> >    
>
> Fedora 2 has KDE, and I really don't see it going away 8). In fact FC2 we
> added a desktop (xfce)
>
> Alan
>
>
>  
Thank you Alan, that puts my soul to rest.
Not to sound harsh, but I hope Redhat never forgets that it was the 
RedHat Linux
Hackers that got RedHat Linux exposed and got it started to what it is 
today.
I started out with 5.0 and I'm still around with Fedora2.

Thanks
Jim Tate

James Tate