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Red Hat plans to bring Linux to Primetime Desktop Machines




Continuing the trend of staying in news since the last couple of weeks, Red Hat took the next step to heat up the desktop operating system market. The Linux Company appointed former Sun Microsystems VP Karen Tegan Padir as VP of Red Hat’s new desktop infrastructure technologies group.

The move is aimed to provide a desktop version of Linux that can compete with Microsoft Windows heads on. Linux machines are already sold by many big PC manufacturers like HP and IBM, but they are nowhere promoted as much as the generic windows powered machines.

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