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Red Hat Welcomes Intel® Channel Program Members

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Program Overview

Red Hat and Intel® are working together to help your organization meet the growing demand for Linux on the desktop. Together, Red Hat and Intel® provide you with the key platform ingredients needed to build Linux on Intel® solutions that you can sell.

Red Hat and Intel® have teamed together to pre-qualify two system configurations based on the Intel® 845 and 865 desktop motherboards (with 915 desktop motherboard qualification coming soon). This provides you with hardware, drivers, and a Linux operating system to start building more stable, reliable desktops to service the demand for Linux-based computers.

Getting Started

It's as easy as 1-2-3!

  1. Request an Intel® Quick Start Kit for Linux
  2. Contact the Red Hat Partnership Manager in your region
  3. Start building Desktop Linux solutions for your customers

Red Hat Desktop

Red Hat Desktop is the Linux solution for client systems built on Intel® platforms. Red Hat Desktop provides all of the applications that a desktop user would expect, all running on top of Red Hat's stable and secure Linux operating system.

Red Hat Desktop Features

Hardware support:

  • Supports Intel® processors and Intel® Extended Memory 64 Technology
  • Certified for Intel® Centrino™ Mobile Technology

Desktop productivity tools:

  • Mail tool - Evolution Email Client
  • Office suite - OpenOffice.org 1.1
  • Web browser - Firefox

Integrated 3rd-party applications:

  • Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • Macromedia Flash Player
  • RealNetworks RealPlayer 10
  • Citrix ICA Client

Learn More

RHDesktop Flash demo

Desktop Interactive Tour

Learn more about the benefits of Red Hat Desktop. This interactive tour requires Macromedia Flash Player 6.

Download Red hat Desktop

Download Red Hat Desktop

Download a free evaluation copy

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