Giant return to the arena: Red Hat returns to desktop Linux

Article Title: Giant's return to the arena: Red Hat's return to desktop Linux. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Includes basic categories such as desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems, and open source.

Red Hat, a Linux giant, once launched many popular desktop Linux distributions in the desktop market. However, the Red Hat chose to leave this field to make it beautiful. Jim whitehust, CEO of RedHat, explained the reason: "Some Linux vendors can earn millions of dollars in revenue by selling hundreds of products, and some vendors are just the opposite, sales of millions of products can only earn hundreds of dollars. Which type of Red Hat do you want to know ?"

However, just a short time ago, RedHat just launched a new set of virtualization technologies, marking its ongoing virtualization transformation from Xen to KVM. As part of the virtualization transformation, RedHat not only uses KVM, but also includes desktop virtualization and management software for SolidICE/SPICE (simple protocol for independent computing environments, this introduces a new server-based desktop virtualization system.

Does this mean that the red hat will be restored to the Linux desktop industry that once made it look amazing? In the face of all kinds of questions in the industry, Red Hat chief technology officer Brian Stevens gave a positive answer to the question, he said: "Yes, Red Hat is indeed going back to the Linux desktop field ."

So what exactly is the reason why redhat is so enthusiastic about the desktop market? The reason is that SolidICE/SPICE and the virtual desktop management suite make the desktop market more interesting. In addition, Steven S adds that this will not only benefit Linux desktops. "This open-source software can solve management problems for Windows and Linux desktops. Therefore, although it is absolutely meaningful to develop a Red Hat desktop running on the virtualization platform, we can also achieve virtualization on Windows and Linux desktops. For users, our virtualization technology saves them the headache of choosing Windows virtualization or Linux virtualization because they can have both ."

Specifically, the new Red Hat Desktop will be under the management of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Desktop Manager (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for each tops. RedHat claims that the virtualized desktop management system will increase the cost-effectiveness of Windows desktop or Linux desktop by three to five times.

Windows or Linux desktops will run on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Management platform ). By using SolidICE and SPICE remote rendering technology, virtualized Red Hat Desktop is not a thin client. It will be a fully functional desktop, and there is no problem even in processing HD videos and video conferencing. In a high-speed network environment with a sufficient number of powerful servers, redhat is expected to have a complete desktop experience for both Windows and Linux desktop users, without worrying about performance or functional compromise.

RedHat will continue with its existing experience in Linux desktop technology. RedHat once gave up the Linux desktop service, but did not find an effective plan to make money using the official Linux desktop product.

However, giving up the desktop service does not mean giving up the desktop technology. On the contrary, RedHat has been committed to improving the Linux desktop system, such as PulseAudio and PackageKit. The former greatly improves audio playback in Linux, while the latter makes software installation and management very easy. Only in Red Hat Personal Desktop, you will not see these improvements. Instead, they are absorbed by Fedora 10 and Red Hat Community Edition Linux.

Now everything is changing. redhat has found how to effectively integrate the Linux desktop business into the business development plan of the entire enterprise, zeng Ji's Linux desktop King is officially returning to Red Hat Linux. It is very likely that at the end of this summer, that is, shortly after the release of RHEL 5.4, we will be able to see the familiar Red Hat Linux re-emergence.