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Dell will not shelter customers from SCO
News Dell earlier this month expanded its relationship with Red Hat, the leading Linux provider. The computer seller bundles Red Hat's products with its servers and offers customer support in partnership with the software maker.
[September 3, 2003, 11:30]
Dell chooses Ubuntu for Linux PCs
News Today, Dell certifies Red Hat or Suse Linux for use on some business-oriented PCs but, except when larger customers place custom orders, customers must install the operating system themselves. Canonical doesn't yet have the widespread hardware and...
[May 1, 2007, 15:44]
Linux lovers hit hard times as home users
News Red Hat chief executive Matthew Szulik said open source software hasn't caught on in the industry as much as he'd like. Red Hat itself only has a modest Wal-Mart sells Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES v.3.0
[November 3, 2005, 17:20]
Microsoft $1bn schools offer 'would inflict great harm'
News The Linux operating system is free -- though companies like Red Hat offer it as a packaged product too -- and thousands of applications, many of which are also free, are available to run on it. The financial insignificance of Microsoft's proposal...
[November 27, 2001, 12:35]
The Day Ahead: VA Linux vs the big guys
News Red Hat doesn't add value to what we do," said Augustin The analyst asked if it would make sense to do a deal with Red Hat to boost its offering. What the analyst was really trying to find out was whether VA Linux would merge with Red Hat to jump...
[November 17, 2000, 12:15]
IBM expands Linux offering
News Red Hat and Novell backed the program because it could increase the number of applications that run on Linux, an important factor for many corporate and consumer customers. Linux distributors and IBM partners Red Hat and Novell were involved in the...
[February 15, 2005, 8:05]
Sun's latest Java targeted at Linux gadgets
News Red Hat, among others, is pushing into the "embedded" area, which includes set-top boxes and many other computing contraptions. In a boost for Java on the higher end, Tower Technology has released its Java software for servers running Red Hat, SuSE...
[January 31, 2001, 15:55]
Mandrake shines up new software
News The software extends the company's long-standing focus on desktop users -- a position that other Linux distributors, including Red Hat, have also begun to adopt. Red Hat is taking a similar approach to desktop consistency in its own upcoming...
[September 26, 2002, 14:42]
Linux 'needs DRM support' for consumer success
News When I talk with Red Hat, Novell, or Linspire - these distributions are in the business of creating software for consumers - they are interested in people who buy their products being able to [view DRM-protected multimedia]," he said.
[April 7, 2006, 10:10]
New KDE to arrive with Halloween eye candy
News The new software arrives on the heels of Red Hat Linux 8.0, which launched a new and controversial strategy for minimising the differences between KDE and Gnome. Red Hat, by far the largest Linux distributor, is using an interface theme called...
[October 17, 2002, 16:58]
The business of Linux in China
News At the time we investigated what distribution we could base it on — we compared Red Hat, which is based around the RPM packaging system, and Debian. There was also a business reason for doing this — with an RPM system, Red Hat offers the best...
[April 11, 2006, 17:55]
No open source company can become a commercial monopoly
Talkback This means that as a consumer, I can 'acquire' a Red Hat platform, at no cost, legally, by downloading CentOS from here: http://www.centos.org/ Red Hat releases the source code to most everything it does.
[January 16, 2009, 20:18]
Mandriva aims for the enterprise
News More recently it has faced increased competition with Suse Linux's acquisition by Novell and Red Hat's continuing growth, not to mention a new version of Windows coming on the horizon. How does all this compare with what competitors such as Red Hat...
[September 20, 2006, 14:00]
Microsoft stands firm in the 'great Linux debate'
News HP, Red Hat, Novell and Sun talking about open-source and Linux at this year's LinuxExpo -- that's not news. Some companies like Red Hat will choose to go the pure open-source route and some companies like mine will choose a hybrid model.
[April 23, 2004, 10:10]
Yamaha, NEC back Linux start-up
News Linux, a clone of the Unix operating system, is used most frequently in servers and sometimes in desktop computers, in versions developed by companies such as Red Hat and SuSE. It can also be used to connect multiple PCs to each other as well as to...
[November 22, 2002, 9:53]
Dell seeks to clarify Linux PC sales
News Dell's Linux partner is Red Hat Software; the PC maker has no relationship with Linspire, Bolen said. In 1999, Dell began to offer Linux as a customisable option on its consumer desktops. Although it dropped the consumer option, Dell made Linux...
[July 7, 2004, 9:00]
Alan Cox hails 64-bit Linux
News Cox, an employee of Linux vendor Red Hat, is now one of the chief developers on the Linux core -- or kernel -- and is largely responsible for coordinating and integrating the contributions of hundreds of developers around the world.
[March 6, 2002, 9:53]
Linux kernel team grows, Torvalds drops off chart
Blog Some five thousand developers across more than five hundred companies are involved: of those companies, Red Hat is in the lead with 12 percent of changes, IBM on 6.3 percent, Novel on 6.1 and Intel on 6.
[August 21, 2009, 15:09]
IBM to reveal Power's foundations
News Present at the New York event were chip manufacturer Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing -- a longtime IBM chip and technology partner -- as well as operating system software companies Wind River and Red Hat.
[April 1, 2004, 12:10]
Stepping up to a giant
News It isn't a Red Hat versus Lindows.com competition or anything like that. In 2001, Robertson started Lindows.com, a software start-up with the goal of turning the open-source Linux operating system into a genuine mass-market consumer item and a...
[August 6, 2003, 11:40]
