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Red Hat plans 'popular' Linux for the desktop

Still not quite for the masses
By Nick Farrell
Tue Mar 20 2007, 16:31
RED HAT SAYS it is planning to release a Linux desktop for a broader audience that it has currently had to play with.

But this is not going to be the much-awaited push into the home desktop market to kick Microsoft to the baseline that Linux supporters have been hoping for.

According to eWeek the offering is designed to compete with Novell's SUSE Linux 10 which is hardly an operating system that your Grannie can install.

However the package will be targeted at small and Medium businesses, which is a level down from the big corporates which Red Hat traditionally likes to play with.

A spokesHat confirmed that the outfit had no plans to go and sell the software at Best Buy. µ

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