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Linux Vendors Hit Back At Analyst Report
News Linux vendors Debian, Red Hat, SuSE and Mandrakesoft have attacked a recent Forrester report that compared Microsoft's security with that of Linux. The best performing Linux vendors -- Red Hat and Debian -- averaged 57 days, while SuSE averages 74...
[April 7, 2004, 16:40]
HP Will Provide Debian Linux Support
News Debian won't be on the same level as Red Hat or Novell, though, Wade said. Debian is a steadfastly non-commercial version of Linux. We've had a number of customers continuing to ask us to have broader support for Debian", and HP decided to oblige...
[August 14, 2006, 16:30]
SuSE Takeover 'pushed Customers To Debian'
Talkback In fact the Red Hat licence scheme change also benefited Debian for a while as many SysAdmins and CIO's decided there was little point in paying an extortionate sum for GNU/Linux when it (the software) is available from a great vendor like Debian...
[March 15, 2005, 9:01]
Consortium To Push Debian To The Fore
News Debian is already one of the top Linux distributions worldwide, alongside Red Hat and SuSE. A number of companies are working together to promote the commercial use of the Debian Linux distribution, in a consortium that is due to be announced at...
[July 26, 2005, 18:10]
Debian Struggling With Security
News The problems have seen Debian fall behind competitors like Red Hat in releasing updates to widely-used programs. For example, although spam-filtering package SpamAssassin was updated by its creator to fix a remote denial-of-service vulnerability on...
[July 5, 2005, 9:40]
Fedora Takes Off As Red Hat Declines
News We saw a boost in Debian around the time that Red Hat made a change in its licensing model," said Phipps. Fedora was a really new name so a lot of new sites that were setting up chose to go with Debian or SuSE instead.
[March 14, 2005, 17:15]
Debian Bangs Drum For Mission Critical Apps
News Debian, a free distribution of the Linux operating system, is better suited to mission-critical applications than rival commercial distributions, one of the distribution's developers - who you can see pictured in our CeBIT 2005 Gallery - claimed...
[March 11, 2005, 14:55]
Debian Developers Call For More Releases
News Red Hat general manager for Australia and New Zealand Gus Robertson recently told ZDNet UK sister site ZDNet Australia that Red Hat was locked in to a 12-18 month release cycle with Intel, IBM and Oracle, in stark contrast to Debian.
[March 18, 2005, 14:50]
The Business Of Linux In China
News There was also a business reason for doing this — with an RPM system, Red Hat offers the best technology and will always be the first with the technology, while with Debian it is easier to innovate. At the time we investigated what distribution we...
[April 11, 2006, 17:55]
Fedora, Slackware, Debian... And Philosophy
Blog Comment It's likely this won't really cause any problems, because it's not tough for Debian to just keep updating their package just as they would if it were called Firefox. There are likely far more significant patches in Debian's package than the one...
[July 11, 2008, 8:59]
Analysts Claim Improved Reliability For Linux Servers
News Debian servers recorded just over five hours of downtime, a decrease of 41 percent from the previous figure. Twenty-four percent of respondents said they had at least one Debian server on the network, compared to 15 percent in the previous survey...
[April 16, 2008, 15:54]
Corporates To Get Taste Of Free Linux
News Perens is a longtime backer of the Debian version of Linux, which is the foundation of UserLinux. Using Debian for a base meant Perens didn't have to start from scratch building a development and governance organisation, he said.
[August 6, 2004, 15:25]
Linux Scorecard Highlights Improvements For Business
News Brown reviewed the features of SuSE Enterprise Linux Server 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1, and Debian 3.0 as of January 2003. Debian made a bigger leap, from "weak" to "good", but still lags behind the other two versions.
[May 16, 2003, 8:31]
Desktop Linux Backer Gets New Chief
News Debian, a largely non-commercial project, shares many elements with the products from companies such as Red Hat, but some components are different, such as the "deb" tool for updating software. Corel's version of Linux, and now Xandros', is based...
[October 30, 2003, 9:45]
SecureCentral PatchQuest
Downloads SecureCentral PatchQuest is automated patch management software for distributing and managing patches, security hot fixes, and updates across heterogeneous networks comprising Windows, Red Hat, and Debian Linux systems, in just a few clicks.
[March 30, 2005, 16:16]
Linux Desktop Hacks: Jazz Up Your Debian System Boot
White Papers Here's how to add a graphical boot splash to the Debian distribution, the only popular Linux distribution that lacks a built-in boot splash. Debian lacks one. Here's how to bring the Debian system up-to-date with the rest.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Debian Sarge Focuses On Easy Installation
Talkback Last week , I tried debian with the Sarge installer, except for a minor sound issuse, everything went great. Neddless to say Debian is now my main OS. After using Red Hat for years, I have been alittle dissapointed with Fedora.
[November 12, 2004, 19:45]
Novell Woos Red Hat Developers
News Novell announced earlier this week that its openSuse Build Service development tool, which already supports Novell's openSuse variations, Ubuntu and Debian, among others, will now support software from Red Hat, Novell's main competitor and the...
[January 25, 2008, 15:45]
Red Hat And Caldera Get In The Ring
News Not to be left out, slash-dotters love Debian, and upstart Mandrake is wildly popular in retail. In the United States, Red Hat and Caldera are the Linux distributions we hear about most. Publicly, most US hardware and software providers have vowed...
[August 14, 2000, 13:40]
Debian: We're Not Looking For Commercial Fortune
News Some analysts foresee a less than rosy future for projects such as Debian, claiming free coding is all well and good, but that without a solid financial backing — such as the models adopted by Red Hat and to a greater degree Novell/Suse — Debian...
[April 28, 2008, 13:03]
