Umm, Yummy: Mactel eats Lintel's desktop

April 23, 2008 (Wednesday) | Linux

Red Hat recently issued a press release under the title What's Going On With Red Hat Desktop Systems? An Update whose content boiled down to "It's a loser, so We're bailing." Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 is a cool two year old product from a company whose CEO recently opined that the Linux "consumer desktop will take years". Ubantu has lots of vocal support but isn't expanding its base; there's no new Debian in sight; and the excitement that could drive one of the other distributions into the spotlight just doesn't seem to be there. Even the Linux based OLPC, a product whose interface could have been a threat to Windows, seems to have been successfully embraced, extended,...