At the launch, Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat also announced partnerships with top ISVs, including VMware, Citrix Systems, Adobe, Macromedia and Real Networks to enhance the productivity and interoperability of the Red Hat Desktop in the future. The next Red Hat Desktop is due along with other Red Hat Enterprise 4.0 offerings in early 2005.
The Red Hat Desktop will offer Agfa monotype fonts including Albandy, Cumberland and Thorndale; the Adobe Acrobat Reader and Plugin 5.08; Macromedia Flash Plugin 6.0.8, Citrix ICA Client 7.00 and RealPlayer 8.0.
The desktop release follows a wide-ranging pact Red Hat and Wind River Systems announced last March to address thin-client computing and the device marketplace. The new Red Hat desktop allows for uniform development of clients for handhelds, call centers and embedded devices, the company said.
Red Hat's corporate Linux desktop follows other offerings shipped by Sun Microsystems and Novell SUSE Linux over the past year. While the first Red Hat Desktop uses much of the existing Red Hat Workstation client code, its integration with Red Hat Network services and SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux) gives it a key differentiator from other Linux competitors and Microsoft, Red Hat executives said.
Solution providers have mixed views about the viability of Linux on the desktop, laptop and device world given the massive installed base of Microsoft Windows and Office users.
Still, some say Linux's strength on the server market and increasing desktop adoption overseas makes it a more viable competitor on the client side than Microsoft has faced in two decades.
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