RH recommends using Windows?

[Anthony J Placilla]

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 11:42, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Eric Wood wrote :
> 
> > http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39117575,00.htm
> > 
> > Man, has RH really lost that much confidence in Fedora?
> 
> ...and I would tend to agree with Matthew Szulik. Note the difference that
> is made between home and corporate desktop : The (lower) average home user
> has drastically different expectations then the corporate one : Games,
> Multimedia most notably, vs. Productivity and Communication tools.
> 
> When so few 3D graphic cards have free native X drivers, and patents
> prevent the most popular multimedia formats from being supported in
> GNU/Linux distributions, it's just not possible to compete fairly.
> 
> Matthias

There is a vast difference between "Joe Sixpack" & the corporate
desktop.
Matthew is correct (albeit he could have phrased it better) in his
assertion that linux isn't there yet for Joe. The last paragraph is
possibly the most sensible.

Short answer. use the right tool for the job. And take all circumstances
into account

That being said, my 78 year old parents use RH on a daily basis. But
they have the virtue of an admin on call. :-)



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