That makes sense, and I agree. As far as I can tell, RH remains committed to the desktop (although more and more that means only GNOME). ________________________________ From: Andrew C Aitchison <and...@aitchison.me.uk> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2020 16:05 To: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@fnal.gov <SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@fnal.gov>; ONeal, Miles <00000be99a30c213-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> Subject: Red Hat on the Desktop - was Re: Calibre current
Caution: EXTERNAL email On Thu, 30 Jan 2020, ONeal, Miles wrote: > Andrew, > > On what do you base the following statement? > > | Yes it has a GUI user interface, but RHEL is becoming a server distro ... OK, that was a bit flippant. I should have been more careful and said something like "Red Hat, like Microsoft, is focusing more on more on its server customers". When I first installed Red Hat in 1995 it was aimed at individuals running it on desktop PCs - there weren't many servers (though some). When I last looked at a major upgrade for my home desktop machine the RHEL8 marketing pages were all about clouds and containers and very little about the desktop. Now I get emails from Red Hat every week, or more often, about Kubernetes, containers and how to write micro-services for clouds. About five years ago the team I was in migrated several hundred desktop users from SL6 to Ubuntu. I cannot see that we would switch these users back to RHEL8 or CentOS8 now. Those thoughts were behind my somewhat inaccurate statement. -- Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK and...@aitchison.me.uk