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Is Red Hat violating the GPL?
Submitted by hitbsecnews on Fri, 2011-03-04 01:50
Right from the time it was set up in the early 1990s, Red Hat has always been some kind of a beacon to the GNU/Linux community.
There have been peaks and troughs, times when the community has been furious with Red Hat and others when the people have drowned the company in praise. There have been times when Red Hat has taken a wrong fork in the road, times when it has chosen the right strategy.
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Fedora 14 final released with Amazon EC2 support
Submitted by hitbsecnews on Wed, 2010-11-03 00:44
The Fedora Project announced the Fedora 14 final release, adding Amazon EC2 support. Fedora also features faster boot-times and JPEG downloads, the MeeGo for Netbooks UI stack, improved debugging, and a new "Spice" virtualization desktop framework, says the project.
Released in beta form at the end of September, Fedora 14 ("Laughlin") is now available in final form. This community-driven open source distro is a techie-focused upstream contributor to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The community has also upgraded its Fedoraproject.org site with the Fedora 14 release.
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Red Hat Moves Into Desktop Virtualization
Submitted by hitbsecnews on Mon, 2010-03-29 23:13
Open source enterprise software company Red Hat has updated its virtualization platform, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (REV), to include support for desktop virtualization, the company announced Monday. The beta version of REV 2.2 will include a number of new programs that will allows customers to run a virtualized desktop infrastructure (VDI).
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If Novell gets bought, will Red Hat follow?
Submitted by hitbsecnews on Tue, 2010-03-09 01:39
Elliott's proposed acquisition of Novell promises to shake up the software industry, which has grown a bit staid in the past year or two. But what will it mean for Red Hat, and for the broader open-source software industry?
In particular, Novell's acquisition might well spur a mergers and acquisitions revival, as Barron's notes. But will it create overwhelming pressure for Red Hat to sell, too?
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Fedora 12 'Constantine' has been released
Submitted by hitbsecnews on Wed, 2009-11-18 06:30
The release of Fedora 12 will mark the fourth major operating system update this fall. Codenamed 'Constantine' and like the three previous OS releases, Windows 7, Ubuntu 9.10 openSUSE 11.2, the Linux based Fedora 12 comes packed with a variety of improvements and new features.
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