There are a lot of flavors of Linux on the market, each with its own unique features and quirks. Businesses are usually willing to pony up for one of the “Big Two”: Red Hat or Novell/Suse. Regular folks, on the other hand, are more likely to download one of the free alternatives.

Do you smell a market opportunity? Not Red Hat or Novell. Each company independently confirmed this week that you may as well keep those BitTorrent clients running: Neither Red Hat nor Novell has any plans to market a consumer desktop Linux product in the near future.

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