Reply to post: Re: Does anyone use an IDE on RHEL anyway?

We (may) now know the real reason for that IBM takeover. A distraction for Red Hat to axe KDE

AdamWill

Re: Does anyone use an IDE on RHEL anyway?

Believe it or not, yeah, they do. Last I heard, the RH desktop team was effectively self-funding, i.e. we sell enough RHEL licenses for desktop use to cover the cost of running the desktop team. It's not a huge business that's gonna set the world on fire, but it's a business.

For most 'typical' desktop users Fedora or Ubuntu is going to make more sense, but there are some specific cases where people really want a desktop distro with RHEL's lifecycle and maintenance policies.

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