At 17, Is Linux Still Wet Behind the Ears?
LinuxInsider — ... Linux is marketed," Kane added. "It needs to market directly to the people, by offering ways to encourage users to actually want to switch to something completely new and different and invest the time learning it. Until Linux has a viable marketing solution it will continue to struggle in stores and on shelves." That, however, "doesn't necessarily mean that Linux has a long way to go," he pointed out. "But there are definitely kinks to be worked out, and the major Linux players like Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) ...

Virtualization on tap in SLES and RHEL upgrades
Linux-Watch.com — ... migration, virtualization, interoperability, green computing, and desktop Linux," says Novell. Availability Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 is available today, says Red Hat. According to Novell, Service Pack 2 for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, and SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SDK are now available, except for the new SMT tool, which will be available in 90 days, along with the SLERT 10 upgrade. More information on Red Hat Enterprise Linux may be found here , and more on Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise may be found ...

Linux Gains Flash, Ubuntu Gains Wikipedia - but Can They Change the World?
LinuxInsider — ... blogger Mhall119 told LinuxInsider. "I think I'll still use the FlashBlock extension for Firefox. When Adobe releases their Creative Suite for Linux, even if it's a year behind Windows, that will be something to talk about." All Ubuntu, All the Time Then, of course, there was the news that the Wikimedia Foundation -- operator of Wikipedia Latest News about Wikipedia and other sites -- has decided to move all 400 of its Web servers from a combination of Ubuntu and Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) Latest News about Red Hat products exclusively to Ubuntu Linux ...

Robert Laughlin's Unwarranted Pessimism
Freedom to Tinker — ... to turn a profit without such restrictions: In the information age, knowledge must be dear. The information age must be a time of sequestered knowledge. Why is that? Simple: you can't get anybody to pay for something that's free. If it's readily available, no one will pay you for it. Therefore, the essence of the knowledge economy is hiding knowledge and making sure that people pay for it. This claim surprised me because there are lots of companies that have managed to turn a profit while building open technological ...

Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on a Mac
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: Software, Features, How-tos, Productivity, Open Source When it comes to virtualization on the Mac, it's mostly discussed in the context of running a variant of Microsoft Windows. This makes sense; the ease of getting Windows to run within OS X (on Intel hardware) is one of the key reasons many first-time Mac buyers are migrating to Apple. However, Windows is hardly the only game in town. Although the annual proclamations of "the year of the Linux desktop" haven't really panned out, thanks to distributions like ...

Ruminations on Microsoft's Future
E-Commerce Times — ... class solutions, people are going to opt for other things right now. It's just a buying pattern. It may be a perception issue or a technological issue. I think it's a matter of openness or their insistence that everything be proprietary and come back to them. I heard the previous comment that looking at all Microsoft all the time will provide the best bang for the buck. I think people are very suspicious of that. Gardner: We've heard quite a bit on this cloud operating system from Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) ...

Novell vs. Red Hat: Linux vs. Linux
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... makes this interesting is that the three-year SLES subscription under this plan also includes two years of technical support for a customer's existing Linux deployments while they make the SLES transition. That's new. I can't recall ever seeing a vendor offering to support the competition's offering while helping you to transition to their product. It does make sense. This is Linux after all. There are a lot of differences between how Novell handles management with its ZENworks and Red Hat does the same jobs with its Red Hat Network, but underneath the top-level management ...

With HP in, all OEMs now ship desktop Linux
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... for ages. Next to IBM, when it comes to servers, HP is the most significant supporter Linux has. I mean, besides supporting the big names of Linux, like Red Hat and ...

Open source isn't free software
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... . As sure as the sun rises in the east, Cisco is going to lose this case. If Cisco had just played by the rules, all that would have happened is that some code improvements would have been shared with the rest of the world. As companies like Red Hat , which do play by the free software rules, have shown, you can be a multi-billion dollar company with open source. Now, Cisco will end up having to open its code anyway, and it will have to pay out cash to the FSF. Cisco would have been far smarter to pay the 'cost' of open-source software in the first place and just share the ...

Virtualization gets a boost in RHEL 5.3
Linux-Watch.com — ... kernel, device driver, and architectural enhancements, says Red Hat, as well as simplified desktop networking and support of the GFS2 filesystem. Stated Scott Crenshaw, VP, Platform Business Unit at Red Hat. "With the challenge to carve costs out of IT budgets, the flexibility, reliability and simplicity of an Enterprise Linux subscription has more value to customers than ever." Availability Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 is available now, says Red Hat, More information may be found here . -- ...

Liberation fonts for Linux
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... . To my surprise, it turns out they didn't know about them. Well, let me tell all of you about Liberation fonts. These are, to my eye, very clean, attractive fonts for both screen and print use. Red Hat designed them together with ...

Being Anti-Linux is bad for your business' health
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... In the meantime, Red Hat is doing better than ever. They just released a new version of their flagship operating system, RHEL 5.3 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), and, unlike Sun or Microsoft, they have new customers coming in. In fact, as my fellow open-source and Linux watcher ...

Canonical's $30 Million and Redmond's Gathering Storm
LinuxInsider — ... in the company's history but also that its stock price has dropped to about half of what it was last year at this time. Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) ...

Red Hat Extends Leadership in Open Source Portals with JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3
Business Wire Technology News — ... as one of the top vendors delivering value in Enterprise Software for five consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com . Forward-Looking Statements Certain statements contained in this press ...

Steve Albrecht Leaving Red Hat Board After Six Years of Service to Focus on Charitable Role
Business Wire Technology News — ... to support his church,” said Matthew Szulik, Chairman of Red Hat’s Board of Directors. “We have enjoyed the privilege of working with Steve. His contributions to Red Hat’s success cannot be measured, and we wish him well on his mission.” Dr. Albrecht chairs the Board’s Audit Committee and is a member of the Board’s Compensation Committee. He will continue to serve in these roles until the time that his resignation is effective. For more information about Red Hat, visit www.redhat.com . About Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is ...

Red Hat & Microsoft partner up!
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — In what came as a surprise to many Linux observers, Red Hat announced on the morning of February 16th that it has signed reciprocal agreements with Microsoft to enable increased interoperability for the companies' virtualization platforms. While Red Hat, after ...

Nonstop Parties, Patent Trolls and Members Choice Awards
LinuxInsider — ... I can attest to the craziness of claim construction and other esoteric legal arguments." Nevertheless, "Unlike coding as a group, which gave us Linux, creating meaningful and valid prior art is both harder and much less rewarding. That's why I doubt it can get enough contributors to make a difference," alain94040 added. "Can't we just force the patent examiners to use Google search instead?" Indeed, the question took on new importance when news emerged on Saturday that Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) More about Red Hat has begun soliciting the community for help in ...

Who's buddying up closer with Microsoft: Novell or Red Hat?
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... or Red Hat , or perhaps both, will be announcing next week that they'll be shifting their server virtualization offerings from Xen to XenServer. What I don't know is what, if anything, either one of them may be doing beyond that to further their virtualization partnerships with Microsoft. One or the other, however, is going to make a major move. This has been building for some time. ...

Red Hat returns to the Linux desktop
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — Red Hat used to be in the desktop business along with all the other Linux distributors. Then, they left. As Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat's CEO, explained Red Hat's desktop approach to me last year, "There are companies that sell hundreds of products for millions of dollars and there are companies that sell millions of products for hundreds of dollars. Guess which kind of company Red Hat is?" Now, however, Red Hat is switching from Xen to KVM for virtualization . As part of that switchover, Red Hat will be using not only KVM, but the SolidICE/SPICE (Simple ...

Fedora 10 regains Linux fans
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — In 2007, Fedora , Red Hat 's community Linux distribution, hit an all-time low. Users were leaving it behind in favor of Ubuntu and openSUSE . Well-known Linux evangelist Eric S. Raymond , after looking at the latest release, Fedora Core 6, dismissed Fedora as junk. Raymond wrote at the time, "Over the last five years, I've watched Red Hat/Fedora throw away what a near-unassailable lead was at one time in technical prowess, market share and community prestige. The blunders have been legion on both technical and political levels." Two years ...

Microsoft vs. TomTom: Low-Level Hum or Drums of War?
LinuxInsider — ... prior art?" stevenj wondered. 'Disappointed in This Sensationalism' Over at LXer , meanwhile, bloggers decried what they saw as sensationalism in some discussion of the case. "I as a loyal LX'er RSS feed fan am very disappointed in this sensationalism," wrote Net_Resident. "I don't like FUD no matter who it comes from. Stay on point and stay honest or lose respect." Indeed, coming hard on the heels of Redmond's recent "patent-free" interoperability agreement with Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) More about Red Hat -- not to mention recent news that ...

Sun-IBM Deal Just Doesn't Add Up
E-Commerce Times — ... absorbed, the decimated workforce, the fact that Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) More about Cisco Systems will now eat Sun's lunch as have the other server makers for more than five years. Any Other Takers? So who might buy Sun on the cheap, before Sun's next financial report 10th Annual Online Fraud Report. Online Payment Fraud Trends, Merchant Practices and Benchmarks. Get your copy today. to Wall Street? Cisco, Dell, EMC (NYSE: EMC) More about EMC , Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) More about Red Hat . That's about it for vendors. And it would be a ...

Sun-IBM Deal Just Doesn't Add Up
LinuxInsider — ... absorbed, the decimated workforce, the fact that Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) More about Cisco Systems will now eat Sun's lunch as have the other server makers for more than five years. Any Other Takers? So who might buy Sun on the cheap, before Sun's next financial report 10th Annual Online Fraud Report. Online Payment Fraud Trends, Merchant Practices and Benchmarks. Get your copy today. to Wall Street? Cisco, Dell, EMC (NYSE: EMC) More about EMC , Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) More about Red Hat . That's about it for vendors. And it would be a ...

How to make a half-a-billion bucks with Linux
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — I find it hard to believe that there are still fools out there who don't think you can make money, serious as heart attack money, with Linux and open source. Let Red Hat spell it out for you. Red Hat reported its 4th quarter results last night, March 25th. I quote: "Total revenue for the quarter was $166.2 million, an increase of 18% from the year ago quarter and 1% from the prior quarter. Subscription revenue for the quarter was $139.4 million, up 14% year-over-year and 3% from the prior quarter. For the full year, total revenue was $652.6 million, an increase of 25% over the ...

Girls in Tech, and Is Linux Doomed on the Desktop?
LinuxInsider — Well it's been a contentious few days on the Linux blogs, what with Ada Lovelace day happening last week and the subsequent emergence of several incendiary topics. Most fiery of all, perhaps, were comments made separately by a few different people suggesting that Linux will never rule the desktop. Of those, the most notable was undoubtedly Red Hat's (NYSE: RHT) ...

Linuxy Pranks, Microsoft Duds, and Red Hat Suitors
LinuxInsider — ... of course -- and a little joke from the Ubuntu developers. Courting Red Hat? Yes, well, anyhoo. Back to reality: It was a little difficult not to be suspicious when reading *anything* on the blogs in the past few days, but particularly -- given what we had already seen -- when the discussion was about any kind of acquisition. So, we were wary when we read rumors that both Citigroup and Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) More about Oracle were considering buying Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) More about Red Hat . Sure enough, even Forbes had a report on ...

Linuxy Pranks, Microsoft Duds, and Red Hat Suitors
E-Commerce Times — ... of course -- and a little joke from the Ubuntu developers. Courting Red Hat? Yes, well, anyhoo. Back to reality: It was a little difficult not to be suspicious when reading *anything* on the blogs in the past few days, but particularly -- given what we had already seen -- when the discussion was about any kind of acquisition. So, we were wary when we read rumors that both Citigroup and Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) More about Oracle were considering buying Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) More about Red Hat . Sure enough, even Forbes had a report on ...

Linux desktop neglect
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... popular Linux desktop distribution, has said " I don't think anyone can make money from the Linux desktop ." Of course, Canonical is more than happy to support Dell and other hardware vendors that want to provide Ubuntu to their customers. But, Shuttleworth is much more changing the world with a free desktop operating system than fighting for desktop market share. Canonical's business focus is really on the server , just like the other Linux distributors. Red Hat , for example, is planning on doing more with the desktop with its summer release ...

Why open source needs the SYNNEX channel
Open Source — ... and paying for itself. This will, in turn, cause all the members of the alliance, like Jaspersoft, Zenoss and Alfresco, to raise their games. If SYNNEX is going to bring you in on engagements where the other choice was IBM, your efforts will be compared directly to theirs and you had better measure up. So in some ways this is like getting a call-up to “the show,” and those who don’t perform go down to the minors. Perhaps to stay. The manager as well as the players.

Poised to Pounce on IPO: Q&A With SugarCRM CEO John Roberts
E-Commerce Times — ... an IPO. Actually, it has been a goal from day one. But it is one thing to have a goal like that but realize you have to start off with venture capital and so on. It is something else to realize you have the financial foundation to become a public company within your grasp. That is usually a stage that takes years and years to get to. It is a big validation for us. CRM: I think you will be one of the few open source companies to go public. JR: Yes I think you are right. Outside of Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) ...

Where In the World Is Open Source Software? [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — ... Red Hat commissioned a study released today that takes a fascinating look at which countries use the most open source software. The usual suspects -- the U.S., UK, and China -- made the top of the list and Africa brings a decent show of support to the table, no doubt due, in part, to the efforts of the One Laptop Per Child prgram. The interactive ...

Where In the World Is Open Source Software?
OStatic blogs — ... Red Hat commissioned a study released today that takes a fascinating look at which countries use the most open source software. The usual suspects -- the U.S., UK, and China -- made the top of the list and Africa brings a decent show of support to the table, no doubt due, in part, to the efforts of the One Laptop Per Child prgram. The interactive ...

Europe tops global open source survey
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Let the IT Land Grab Begin
E-Commerce Times — ... . No need to buy it now (for a while). Open source in general, too, may take a hit, as I don't expect Unbreakable Linux to remain Oracle's point on the operating system arrow. Solaris will be the prime Oracle OS for performance, meaning Oracle's channel pipeline to Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) ...

Let the IT Land Grab Begin
LinuxInsider — ... . No need to buy it now (for a while). Open source in general, too, may take a hit, as I don't expect Unbreakable Linux to remain Oracle's point on the operating system arrow. Solaris will be the prime Oracle OS for performance, meaning Oracle's channel pipeline to Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) ...

Managing Ubuntu Linux on the cloud
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... business manager said "Landscape simplifies system management tasks for users who run Ubuntu on physical or virtual servers in-house or some or all of their Ubuntu servers on the Amazon EC2 cloud. It enables users to manage all instances from the same application." In short, Landscape is more proof that Canonical wants Ubuntu to not just be your desktop Linux, but a serious contender for your servers as well. At first glance, you might think Landscape looks a lot like Red Hat 's management program: Red Hat Network . You're right. It does. But, Drachnik ...

Fedora 11's best five features
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — Fedora , Red Hat 's community Linux's arrival has been delayed until early next week , June 2, but the release candidate is already looking mighty darn good. I've been using Fedora 11 since the late beta showed up in mid-April, and I've been very impressed. It's fast, it's stable, and it's got a snazzy new look. That said, there's one change that I'm not crazy about, audio control, so let's get that out of the way first. In Fedora 11, or more properly its main desktop interface, GNOME 2.26 , uses a new and mindlessly simple audio control: the ...

Red Hat rakes in big bucks
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — Some companies, OK most companies, are in trouble, but Red Hat , the world's number one Linux company just keeps signing the customers and making the bucks. In its first financial quarter for the 2010 fiscal year, which ended May 31st, 2009, Red Hat's total revenue was $174.4 million, an 11% increase from the year ago quarter. The company also reports that "subscription revenue for the quarter was $148.8 million, up 14% year-over-year." GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) operating income for the quarter was $25.1 million with a 14.4% operating margin. After the ...

A Summer of Linux Delights
LinuxInsider — ... in Brazil. You just can't buy entertainment like that! 'Year of the Linux Stock Market'? Then there was the news that Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) ...

Drama shakes up CentOS community
Download Squad — ... For users or businesses that want to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) but don't feel like ponying up the required subscription fee to get the binary, ...

Always Look on the Bright Side of FOSS
LinuxInsider — The days of summer may be coming to an end, but that's no reason to be downhearted. Indeed, just consider the news that in its recent annual filing to the SEC More about SEC , Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Apple Store Discount on Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition . Click here. More about Microsoft for the first time listed Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) More about Red Hat and Canonical as official competitors! The company "faces strong competition from well-established companies with differing approaches to the PC ...

Acquia on Why Web Publishers Love Drupal—And How the Startup Balances Business With Belonging to an Open-Source Community
Xconomy — ... You might think that Acquia is to Drupal as Red Hat is to Linux, but that analogy doesn’t quite work. For one thing, Red Hat charges for its version of Linux, while all versions of Drupal, including Acquia’s, are free. Imagine that Linus Torvalds wasn’t merely the gatekeeper for the Linux kernel but also chief technology officer at a company aiming to be the central source for Linux support; that’s the somewhat precarious position Dries Buytaert, and therefore Acquia, occupies. So the company has to be extra careful not to make changes that ...

FOSS vs. the Winged Monkeys: Q&A With Open Source for America's Chris Lundberg
LinuxInsider — ... launched this summer and is on its board of advisors. This group is a coalition of more than 60 organizations joining together to advocate open source in the U.S. federal government arena. Its membership includes industry leaders such as Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) ...

The Joy of Linux Myth Debunking
LinuxInsider — ... , where more than 250 comments greeted the findings. "Every one of those companies is paying for work on the kernel because it is good for their business. Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) ...

Linux in 2013: One *Billion* Dollars!
LinuxInsider — ... a $1.2 billion business by 2013, according to a story in Heise Online. 'Largely Irrelevant' "I think this is largely irrelevant unless you work for or are a shareholder of one of these Linux vendors," Dean said. "Far more important, I think, are the dollars that flow because of the 'behind the scenes' Linux." Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) ...

New Red Hat Linux's top five features
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — Red Hat has released its latest version of its flagship operating system RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 5.4 , and there's a lot to like in this new business Linux. I've been using RHEL and its twins, CentOS and Oracle Unbreakable Linux , since day one, and I like them a lot for business server use. Of these releases, RHEL 5.4 is the most impressive of the lot, for these reasons: 1) Baked-in virtualization. This edition of RHEL incorporates KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) . KVM , unlike VMware or Citrix Systems' ...

Open source profits, proprietary fails
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — The big money software companies, like Microsoft, still rely on proprietary software for their profits. Things are changing, though. While businesses like Microsoft and Sun are seeing their profits and growth decline, pure open-source play companies like Red Hat are actually gaining customers and profits in a down economy. Take Red Hat for example. In ...

Fat or Fit? The Penguin's Bulging Waistline
LinuxInsider — ... LUGs . Perhaps an even bigger discussion, however, arose over Linus' comments during a panel at LinuxCon that "the kernel is huge and bloated ." Every time a new feature gets added, the problem gets worse, he reportedly said. Bloggers on Slashdot jumped on the topic with more than 600 comments by week's end, not to mention three separate threads of conversation taking place on LXer . 'That's a Good Thing' Then, just to stir things up a little more, Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) More about Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst chimed in with his own ...

Red Hat comes out swinging against software patents
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — What do Microsoft, Red Hat , and Canonical all have in common? They all dislike software patents. Don't get me wrong. Many companies that are anti-patent also hold and use patents against their enemies. Microsoft is one of those. But, if you get an in-house corporate IP (intellectual property) lawyer from any company in a bar, he or she will tell you that software patents are awful. So, I'm pleased to report that Red Hat, has filed an ...

Who really has the most Linux users?
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — First, Red Hat's claimed the lion's share of the Linux market, then Novell said Red Hat's not that much in the lead, so where does the truth lie? It's a good question. At the recent Red Hat 's Analyst Day, Red Hat Executive VP Paul Cormier, said that ...

Open Source Inside
Symbian Blog — ... So the infrastructure that we have built is largely outsourced to a range of partners. The majority of servers are RedHat Enterprise Linux or ...

Is Big Blue a Desktop Linux Friend or Foe?
LinuxInsider — ... (Nasdaq: MSFT) More about Microsoft customers; in the same way, Linux is infused with new functionality when someone is motivated and willing to pay for development, or has the resources and the time to implement them in-house," Slashdot blogger drinkypoo told LinuxInsider. "The NSA produced SELinux out of the need for a more secure operating system for their own use, while IBM, Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) More about Novell , and Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) More about Red Hat are well known for their contributions both to the kernel and ...

Five ways the Linux desktop shoots itself in the foot
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... . It's hard to beat a monopoly that will do whatever it takes to make sure people don't see there's a better, cheaper alternative. I understand that. At the same time, Linux has shot itself in the foot quite often. How? 1) Lack of Linux vendor support Every Linux distribution has a desktop version. But how many of them actively try to sell them? Not many. Red Hat is the number one Linux vendor, but makes its hundreds of millions from the server, not from the desktop. ...

Red Hat's number one
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... services' overall value was outstanding. Red Hat tied with Google for the top spot. This, by the by, was the 5th time that Red Hat had claimed at least a share of the number one spot. CIOs aren't loving Red Hat because they think Linux is cool or Windows is evil, CIOs are buying Red Hat because they see it as delivering reliability and value. And bottom line time, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and related products meet their expectations for increasing revenues and lowering costs. As Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat's president and CEO, explained in a ...

Five Linux alternatives to Windows 7
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... Fedora is Red Hat 's community Linux distribution and it's a winner. That said, it's a cutting edge distribution. You'll find new features in the forthcoming Fedora 12, like kernel memory management via KSM KSM ( ...

Choosing a Desktop Linux Distro, Part 2: Installation and Support
LinuxInsider — ... -- "require more effort to get going," Eric Foster-Johnson, author and coauthor of more than 20 books, including Beginning Shell Scripting and the Red Hat RPM Guide , told LinuxInsider. Users who already have Linux at work may want to make their own desktop choices accordingly. 'I'd Suggest Fedora' For instance, "if a person has Linux at work, commonly as a server, I'd suggest Fedora , since -- at least in the U.S. -- the work Linux will likely be Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) More about Red Hat or a variant such as CentOS ," Foster-Johnson ...

Open Source Execs Name Most Influential People in FOSS
OStatic blogs — ... . As founder of SourceForge (formerly VA Linux) and highly-respected industry leader, no list would be complete without his name. Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO of Red Hat also made the top five. Rounding out the list is ...

Open Source Execs Name Most Influential People in FOSS [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — ... . As founder of SourceForge (formerly VA Linux) and highly-respected industry leader, no list would be complete without his name. Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO of Red Hat also made the top five. Rounding out the list is ...

Ubuntu 9.10: Linux for business
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... ), the big-name Linux distributors tend to focus on servers. After-all, as Red Hat has shown, that's where the real money is. This isn't new. ...

Could Microsoft switch to Linux?
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... as well. In Microsoft's ideal world, all your electronics, not just your desktop, are running Windows and you'll have no choice but to buy new updates every few years. By its open nature, you simply can't do that in Linux. For example, if you start using Red Hat Linux but you end up hating Red Hat, you can easily move over to ...

Linux powers the fastest computers on the planet
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... has never been the same. Today, Linux rules supercomputing. The latest " Top 500 supercomputer " list of the fastest computers on the planet makes that abundantly clear. Broken down by operating system, this latest ranking has 469 of the top 500 running one kind of Linux or another. To be exact, 391 are running their own house brand of Linux. Sixty-two are running some version of Novell's SUSE Linux , including such variants as UNICOS/lc and CNL (Compute Node Linux). Red Hat and its relatives, including CentOS , come in second with 16 supercomputers. ...

5 O’Clock Roundup: Crunchpad killed, Googlephone sighted, Kindles counted
VentureBeat — Mike Arrington’s Crunchpad tablet computer dies in confusing startup crackup – A year and a half ago, TechCrunch editor Arrington decided that rather than wait for the tech industry to deliver him a $200 touchscreen tablet computer f0r use on the couch, the plane, the park, and wherever else a laptop was t00 much and a smartphone not enough, he would start a business to design, build and sell one  himself. Today, with the Crunchpad not far behind schedule to start selling in stores, Arrington wrote a long post telling his side of a story about a falling-out with ...

Red Hat Linux without the Red Hat
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — Red Hat is the number one Linux company on the planet by a wide margin. Their flagship distribution, RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), is great, and they have excellent technical support. That hasn't stopped other companies from trying to ride on their coattails, and lately more businesses are adopting Red Hat's Linux code base and offering support for it. Why would anyone want to do this? After all, ...

Stealth Startup Relaxed Raises $2 Million From Redpoint Ventures For CouchDB Support
TechCrunch — ... While we don’t know much about what Relaxed will be doing, we do know that they will provide support for developers using CouchDB in addition to trying to expand the adoption of CouchDB by enterprise companies. Their role seems similar to that of RedHat’s in the ...

Red Hat heads back to the desktop with SPICE
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — Red Hat is the number one Linux company, but they haven't been interested in the Linux desktop for years. With the open-sourcing of SPICE (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment) , that's changing. SPICE, like Microsoft's RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) and Citrix's ICA (Independent Computing Architecture) , is a desktop presentation services protocol. They're used for thin-client desktops, and SPICE will be too. In 2010, you can count on Red Hat returning to the Linux desktop. But they won't be doing it as a competitor to ...

A decade of Linux
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... won't have a thing to do with these distributions. 2002-2004: Red Hat embraces the enterprise, and leaves individual users behind Red Hat is Linux's glowing success story. If ...

2009's Five Most Popular & Important Linux Stories
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... The economy lingers on its sick bed, but Red Hat continues to prosper. At the rate Red Hat's continuing to grow, I won't be at all surprised to see Red Hat to become the first pure Linux play company to top a billion dollars in annual revenue in its next fiscal year. 3) ...

Does VMware buying Zimbra from Yahoo make sense?
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... in 2007, the company didn't seem to have a clue as to how they were going to integrate it into Yahoo's other offerings. As a result, from the outside looking in, Zimbra has always appears to be an ugly duckling in the Yahoo flock. But, why VMware? Why not say, Red Hat , which might be able to use an open-source e-mail server to go with its RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) server offering? While I can't say for certain it seems that other companies weren't that interested in Zimbra. Thus, according to Swisher, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz approached VMware CEO Paul Maritz to see if ...

On Pi, Paper Penguins and FOSS' Regal Potential
LinuxInsider — ... than ever before. It's true! Fabrice Bellard, a computer scientist in France, has left all previous records in the dust by calculating the elusive constant to 2.7 trillion decimal places. Not only that, but he did it with just a personal computer! Best part of all? Said computer runs Red Hat's (NYSE: RHT) Fedora. Woo, Linux! A Paper Tux Those in search of less cerebral fun, meanwhile, can find what they're looking for over at the DigitalKamera blog, where a printable image and instructions are available for making your very own ...

Record-setting Linux
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... you get when you divide the circumference of a circle by its diameter, as far as 3.14159; after that, I'm clueless. Recently, French software engineer Fabrice Bellard calculated the value of pi to 2.7 trillion numbers with a souped-up but otherwise ordinary home PC running Red Hat 's ...

Will the Decade's Best Distros Please Stand Up?
LinuxInsider — ... blogger Martin Espinoza countered. "I would once have said it was Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), but that was before they canned their free, supported release and replaced it with RHEL beta test versions, aka Fedora." Ubuntu, by contrast, "has pledged long-term support for some versions, and has also provided significant Web support to its community," Espinoza told LinuxInsider. "Making it easy to install non-free drivers allows those more pragmatic than idealist to use their computers in cases where they'd otherwise have an inferior experience, though of course supporting Free ...

On MeeGo, a Budding Geek and the 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors
LinuxInsider — ... the authors. "Even when a software package doesn't primarily run on the web, there's a good chance that it has a web-based management interface or HTML-based output formats that allow cross-site scripting," they explained. "For data-rich software applications, SQL injection is the means to steal the keys to the kingdom." 'Monster Mitigations' Also included in the report is a section on "Monster Mitigations," listing practices that can help. Providing a nice comparison, meanwhile, Red Hat's (NYSE: RHT) Mark Cox also recently published an analysis of the ...

Linux is doing just fine on servers
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... deal. That's not how the real datacenter and server world works today though. Today, many businesses buy generic x86 servers and then add Linux to them. Many of the companies I know have made Linux servers out of older servers or workstations. Still others buy cheap new x86 servers without any operating system and then put a free Linux distribution on them. Take my own office where I'm currently running five Linux servers. None of them came with pre-installed Linux. I installed RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) , ...

gFTP: The No-Hassle Way to Transfer Files
LinuxInsider — ... . gFTP works with version 1.2 or 2.x of GTK+. Opt for the earlier version. Installing GTK+ 2.x needs more packages. The only other system requirement is the pthread libraries. This usually is not a problem. Libc6-based machines such as Debian 2.x+ or Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) 5.x+ have the pthread libraries preinstalled. Fixing or Finessing Earlier libc5-based machines need LinuxThreads. You can download it ...

Hedge Fund Offers to Take Novell Private for $1.8 Billion
Digital Trends — ... ) that shields SUSE Linux users from any patent infringement claims Microsoft may one day bring against the broader Linux platform. The results is that SUSE Linux, while still a distant runner-up for corporate Linux installations compared to Red Hat Linux is the only Linux distribution guaranteed safe from theoretical Microsoft wrath and that makes it a less risky choice for organizations and enterprises who don’t want to be on a hypothetical hook. Microsoft’s relationship with SUSE Linux also provides a way for Microsoft to participate in the open source community and that ...

Elliot Associates' worrisome Novell plans
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... in the last quarter. What Novell hasn't done though is do as well as its investors would like. Novell remains a perpetual also-run to Red Hat in the Linux business. This makes me worry that Elliot Associates will successfully buy Novell and take the company private. Then, what I fear will happen, is that they'll take the cash-if Elliot Associates are good at anything it's getting the cash-and then slash and burn the rest of the company. My compadre ...

5 gadgets que funcionan bajo linux
Gizmologia — Linux, aquel Sistema Operativo que es tan querido y odiado siempre es tema de discusión en las esferas de computines a nivel mundial. Por supuesto, Gizmología no puede quedarse atrás en estas discusiones que a final de cuentas son divertidas, por los talibanes linuxeros, los Apple fanboys que discuten y los usuarios de Windows. Hoy te traigo 5 gadgets que tienen como alma alguna variante de este glorioso S.O, por que seamos sinceros, Internet no fuera lo que es hoy sin Linux. Desde el 2006 uso Ubuntu y la verdad que me ah maravillado, así como ...

NorthScale’s Data Management Technology Attracts Zynga And Others
TechCrunch — ... for Hadoop or Red Hat for Linux; the startup is commercializing the open source technology. As web applications generate vast volumes of data, there is a need for a data management technology that caters towards transactional software systems. NorthScale’s elastic data infrastructure software promises to cache frequently used data while also offering performance and scalability. ...

Linux on the cloud: IBM, Novell & Red Hat
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — Today, Mar. 16, has been filled with Linux and cloud news which is great, I guess, if you're ready to trust your data to the cloud. In case you don't follow Linux as closely as I do, here's the short version: Red Hat and ...

Twitter Tightens Security With Encryption Expert Hire
louisgray.com — ... added computer security veteran Bob Lord to the company's expanding employee roster, bringing with him 20 years of experience focused on electronic security systems at large companies, most recently including Red Hat, ...