Topic: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers (Read 2375 times)

toasty0 · « **on:** March 19, 2005, 10:29:55 pm »

Matthew Szulik, chief executive of Linux vendor Red Hat, said on Monday that although Linux is capable of exceeding expectations for corporate users, home users should stick with Windows: "I would say that for the consumer market place, Windows probably continues to be the right product line," he said. "I would argue that from the device-driver standpoint and perhaps some of the other traditional functionality, for that classic consumer purchaser, it is my view that (Linux) technology needs to mature a little bit more."

Chris Jones · « **Reply #1 on:** March 19, 2005, 10:31:48 pm »

Very Interesting.. and I might agree as setting up Linux is not quite the same as setting up Windows..

Ravok · « **Reply #2 on:** March 20, 2005, 02:33:33 pm »

Quote from: toasty0 on March 19, 2005, 10:29:55 pm

Matthew Szulik, chief executive of Linux vendor Red Hat, said on Monday that although Linux is capable of exceeding expectations for corporate users, home users should stick with Windows: "I would say that for the consumer market place, Windows probably continues to be the right product line," he said. "I would argue that from the device-driver standpoint and perhaps some of the other traditional functionality, for that classic consumer purchaser, it is my view that (Linux) technology needs to mature a little bit more."

Boy i respect that kind of honesty.
To be honest with you I allmost fell over.

Bonk · « **Reply #3 on:** March 20, 2005, 02:44:14 pm »

After my last experience with FC2 I'd definitely reccomend windows over it... much superior OS. FreeBSD is the most stable and solid *nix I've used... any red hat products I've touched have been absolutely dreadful. Wouldn't let it anywhere near a server that must perform. I would not reccomend Red Hat to anyone for any purpose... dreadful OS... Besides they're asking people to pay for their bastardised Linux distros... foolish... remember Corel tried that? I can't understand how redhat has survived this long.

Strafer · « **Reply #4 on:** March 21, 2005, 01:07:35 pm »

Quote from: Bonk on March 20, 2005, 02:44:14 pm

... Besides they're asking people to pay for their bastardised Linux distros... foolish... remember Corel tried that?

Yep, and I did techsup for them on it. Now I followed the dev team and doing techsup for Xandros.

E_Look · « **Reply #5 on:** March 21, 2005, 05:37:20 pm »

Ahh, all Linux needs are more software developers willing to write consumer products, which would bring along drivers, too.

Gotta give it to Gates; he knows how to monopolize. What was his name again? Bill Gotti? Bill Capone? Ah, something like that.

toasty0 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 22, 2005, 10:16:34 am »

Quote from: E_Look on March 21, 2005, 05:37:20 pm

Ahh, all Linux needs are more software developers willing to write consumer products, which would bring along drivers, too.

Gotta give it to Gates; he knows how to monopolize. What was his name again? Bill Gotti? Bill Capone? Ah, something like that.

Don't hate the pla'uh, hate the game.

I love the myth that all that is with computers is Bill Gates doing. That Bill Gates is this brilliant guy, this omi-sentient being. In fact, the current state of PCs is not so much a far seing vision of Bill Gates as it is the lack of vision on the part of leaders of IBM, HP, and other mainframe makers in the 80s'. If you're interested in business history and learning about some of the decisions that molded the PC and computer server market of today I recommend reading Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround
to get a deeper, more mature understanding for current events.

Jerry

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