Marketing description

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop is built for both the administrator and the end user. Built with the robust and secure Red Hat Enterprise Linux foundation and leading end-user applications and features from the open source community, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop is an attractive and highly productive environment for knowledge workers on desktops or laptops.

Key selling points

• More secure applications
• Protection against commonly exploited security flaws, e.g. buffer overflows integrated in the standard software stack
• High-grade protection via the SELinux security feature
• Protects system services from attacks, full transparency and is easy to extend and adopt
• Smartcard authentication support

Product features

• Security
  Linux has a reputation for being a very secure operating system. Red Hat has extended Linux's security advantage by developing a layered defense scheme for keeping desktops secure.
• Management
  Red Hat provides a simple, rapidly-deployable tool that allows a systems administrator to manage a complex, geographically dispersed desktop deployment from a single web-based console.
• Interoperability
  Not only are the applications bundled with a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop interoperable with Microsoft formats, but Red Hat also includes other technologies to allow a Red Hat desktop to plug-and-play in a Microsoft-centric environment.
• Applications
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop includes the most popular desktop applications for no additional charge. Fully featured and with intuitive interfaces, these applications make your users productive with little need for retraining.
• User experience
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop was designed to create a user experience where everything "just works". This involves major improvements to everything, from OpenOffice and Firefox to networking, laptop support, peripheral support, graphics, and multimedia. All of this ensures that your users are more productive with minimal need for retraining.