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Earlier this week Red Hat announced the availability of a new desktop Linux distribution, dubbed Red Hat Global Desktop. The new system signals a change from [Red Hat][1] as it moves from its previous concentration on the server market to the Linux desktop.
Red Hat Global Desktop seems geared to compete with SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Desktop and with the increasingly popular Ubuntu Desktop.
The Global Desktop distro is, [according to DesktopLinux.com][2], a result of Red Hat's involvement with the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project. Like many Linux vendors, Red Hat sees the future of Linux in emerging markets.
Global Desktop will be a stripped down version of Red Hat's existing Enterprise Linux Desktop which features some 1,500 applications. Gerry Riveros, head of Red Hat client solutions marketing, said at a press conference at Red Hat's ongoing Red Hat Summit in San Diego, "we stripped this down to about 700 [applications] by getting rid of a lot of things like developer tools and compilers, which helped reduce the hardware requirements for the system."
Global Desktop also see perhaps the most explicit partnership to date between Red Hat and Intel. In fact, Global Desktop will not be a download and install system, rather the OS will be pre-installed on inexpensive PCs.
Although the primary market is small businesses and governments in emerging countries, at least some manufacturers will likely release machines for the U.S. market as well.
Expect Red Hat Global Desktop to begin shipping in June 2007.
[1]: http://www.redhat.com/ "Red Hat"
[2]: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4676444460.html "Red Hat shows its Global Desktop cards"
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