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Blue chip sales put Red Hat in black
News Red Hat, the leading distributor of Linux, has bucked the current downturn in the technology sector by making its first ever profit last quarter -- thanks to increased sales to corporate customers. In the three months to 31 May, Red Hat made a...
[June 20, 2001, 11:10]
Microsoft to lift lid on hacker conference
News Microsoft is to publish the findings of its three day "Blue Hat 3" security conference, according to a blog posting by one of its organisers. The third Blue Hat conference, which was held last week, was organised to discuss the current state of...
[March 17, 2006, 15:55]
Wanted: Windows Hackers
News Microsoft wants its "Blue Hat" date with hackers to become a regular affair, with biannual events where outsiders demonstrate flaws in Microsoft's product security. The next Blue Hat is planned for the autumn, but no date has been set yet, Toulouse...
[August 2, 2005, 9:55]
Black Hat researcher hacks Vista
News While Microsoft talked up Windows Vista security at Black Hat, a researcher in another room demonstrated how to hack the operating system. At Black Hat, Microsoft gave out copies of an early Vista release for attendees to test.
[August 7, 2006, 8:30]
Breaking Windows for better security
News A strong supporter of Blue Hat, Allchin wanted the Windows group not just to hear about security issues, but to see them as well. In a world where "white hats" are the security do-gooders and "black hats" are the hard-core villains, the hackers at...
[June 21, 2005, 12:55]
IBM and SuSE queue for cash registers
News Linux leader Red Hat has largely bypassed embedded Linux to focus on tuning the open-source operating system for servers and desktop computers. SuSE, based in Nuremburg, Germany, is the second-largest seller of Linux after US company Red Hat.
[January 8, 2004, 7:35]
Security exploits: Who's to blame?
News At Blue Hat, hackers are invited to Microsoft's headquarters to demonstrate flaws in Microsoft's product security. We are at the point where all the obvious things we tell Microsoft to do, they already do it," Dan Kaminsky, a security researcher...
[September 6, 2005, 16:40]
IBM prepares for another Linux invasion
News Red Hat and SuSE will begin selling a 64-bit Linux version for mainframes in the first half of the year, said Rich Lechner, vice president of marketing for IBM's eServer group. Red Hat declined to comment.
[February 24, 2002, 6:31]
HP, Novell do desktop Linux deal
News Big Blue committed to the investment in November, when Novell announced its planned $210m acquisition of SuSE Linux, the second-ranked seller of the open-source operating system after Red Hat. Red Hat on Tuesday announced its own deal with Big Blue...
[March 25, 2004, 8:25]
IBM throws weight behind desktop Linux
News However, IBM is likely to take a cautious approach to desktop Linux similar to that of Sun Microsystems and Red Hat. So do Red Hat, Xandros, NeTraverse, the Security-Enhanced Linux group, OpenOffice and KDE.
[November 10, 2003, 7:30]
IBM's T-Rex mainframe set to roar
News Versions of Linux from Red Hat and SuSE run on the mainframe, though Red Hat's support will improve with the coming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0, due this autumn. IBM dominates the market for mainframes, and many would-be competitors such as Amdahl...
[May 12, 2003, 9:36]
Police your network traffic with IPTraf
News For this article, I tested IPTraf installation with Red Hat 7.2. All of these requirements are met on the newer distributions, dating roughly from the release of Red Hat 7.0. Figure AIPTraf's menu highlights action keys in light blue.
[April 30, 2002, 12:33]
The Day Ahead: Blue Martini and Interland lead IPO parade
News Interland, which offers hosting on the Microsoft NT and Red Hat Linux platforms, will count Bell Atlantic, now trading as Verizon, Microsoft and Network Solutions as shareholders concurrent with the IPO.
[July 24, 2000, 12:24]
Wanted: Windows Hackers
Talkback I thought the Blue Hat name came from the Blue Screen of Death syndrome that Windows users have to live with :-P
[August 3, 2005, 9:45]
IBM slashes price of Red Hat on Power servers
News IBM on Tuesday dropped the price of Red Hat Linux on its Power processor-based servers by more than 30 percent, Big Blue has confirmed. But in this case, the sales incentive came from Red Hat, IBM said.
[April 30, 2004, 8:45]
IBM debuts Linux-only server
News Red Hat, the No.seller of Linux, has agreed to release a version of its high-end Advanced Server product for all four IBM server lines. Now, as expected, Big Blue has modified Linux sufficiently that its p630 servers will start up without AIX.
[December 4, 2002, 11:04]
Big Blue leaves modem software off Linux laptop
News IBM may be congratulating itself on the release of the first Red Hat-ready laptop, but according to reports, the Thinkpad 600 ain't all its cracked up to be. Big Blue released the 600 with one small problem: no Linux software drivers for the...
[September 15, 1999, 13:22]
Big Blue picks Linux for clusters
News The systems run Red Hat's version of Linux but also use IBM software that lets the systems share the same file system, software IBM originally developed to manage large numbers of its pSeries Unix servers that run IBM's AIX version of Unix.
[November 14, 2001, 12:07]
SuSE achieves Linux security certification
News Red Hat and SuSE are both IBM business partners, but in New York Big Blue has been showing warm ties with SuSE. Red Hat, the company that sells the most widely used version of Linux, announced in February it was working with Oracle to achieve EAL2...
[January 21, 2004, 12:50]
SCO accepts $50m investment
News But IBM has countersued, and Linux seller Red Hat also sued SCO in an attempt to lay the matter to rest. SCO sells the Unix operating system and licenses it to others, but more controversially, it has sued IBM over Big Blue's treatment of Unix and...
[October 17, 2003, 9:30]
