Red Hat has postponed until January the launch of a new Linux software product for personal computers that would directly compete with Microsoft'S Windows operating system.
Introduction of the software, which would also compete with Novell's Suse Linux software and would initially be sold in developing countries, had previously been delayed twice. Red Hat spokeswoman Leigh Day said the company planned to release the software in January, five months after the original target date of August that it had promised customers. She said Red Hat was postponing the product's release again because it has yet to resolve problems getting the right to distribute software for playing music and viewing videos with the Linux software.
