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Jun. 11, 2009

Red Hat is and always has been an enterprise software company, a decision it has made years ago, and to which the company has always been very diligent about. So sometimes the company has been criticized by some as being too much enterprise-focused. Now it appears that the Linux vendor might want to bend the rules a bit.

However, anyone thinking that Red Hat has somehow forgotten consumer markets in its rush to win the enterprise need only try the final release of Fedora 11, its community-focused operating system for desktops and laptops.

Overall, Fedora 11 has been evaluated by many for the past month and some find it polished and professional while beating Windows in key performance areas. Then again, it certainly isn't surprising that Linux beats Windows when it comes to operating systems, enterprise or not...

One of Fedora 11's biggest selling points is that it simply works flawlessly. And it's fast, too: from powering on to logging in takes 18 seconds or less, even on a single-core 1.2 Ghz CPU (Intel or AMD, it dosen't matter really) and with just 256 megs of RAM. We've even tried it with just 128 megs and it only took a few seconds more at boot time.

If Windows hopes to catch Linux in boot-up performance, it's going to have to turn to Linux... (pun intended)      :-)

Of course, while no Linux distribution is totally perfect, they all work, with little or no serious config that is really required.

Linux really has nothing left to prove to the IT community. It took years to become user friendly, but it has certainly arrived, helped along by the world's move to browser-based computing. At this point, the only thing that Fedora and the other Linux distros can do is extend the Windows computing experience, because they've largely matched them.

Fedora 11 provides support for cross-compiling Windows applications directly on Fedora Linux using the Min GW environment, and it provides the latest in open-source software like Firefox 3.1 for Web browsing.

Some say Fedora 11 still needs some improvements but, again, so does Windows, and in a lot more ways than one...

The Mac OS X is the closest to any desktop operating system gets to being sexy and user friendly. Linux, however, if Fedora 11 is any indication, isn't far behind.

So Tux, here's a tip of the hat for you!

Source: OS Review.

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