On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 16:14 -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jim Thompson wrote: > > On Jan 31, 2006, at 3:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> On Jan 31, 2006, at 10:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>> Personally, I have trouble imagining that Google would want to get > >>>> into the Desktop OS business. Ubuntu isn't bad, but the only way > >>>> anyone will profit is if they sell computers in volume with Linux > >>>> pre-installed. > >> > >> > >> Jim Thompson wrote: > >> > >>> Try telling that to RedHat, or any of the other linux distro vendors. > >> > >> > >> I would, but Red Hat is the one telling us that Linux isn't ready for > >> the desktop, and that we should all run Windows, instead. They said > >> it rather loudly. http://www.silicon.com/software/os/ > >> 0,39024651,39116741,00.htm > >> Granted this was the tail end of 2003, but nothing from Red hat > >> indicates that they have changed their position. > > > > > > Redhat introduces its "Desktop" product in mid 2004. > > > > http://distrocenter.linux.com/distrocenter/04/11/06/1831257.shtml? > > tid=111&tid=116 > > http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5205117.html > > > > https://www.redhat.com/en_us/USA/rhel/compare/client/#tableD > > Which basically has done very little. > > > Novel (SUSE) has one too. > > Indeed, one can argue that Suse's is a more serious product, but > adoption has been limited.
If you want numbers. Tom Welch, CTO of Linspire said that last quarter they shipped 50,000 copies of Linspire at Frys alone (http://www.tposscon.com/audio.php). Most of these would come pre-installed with the PCs. Linspire is a desktop only distribution of Linux.