Video Interview: Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst

Dec 08, 2008

Red Hat president and CEO Jim Whitehurst sees opportunities for open source firms that might be putting undue burden on their dwindling IT departments because of the current economic downturn. Whitehurst offered his views in a press conference in Munich. His conclusion: "When people look at alternatives, often Open Source wins."

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Red Hat CEO Sees Open Source Opportunities in Financial Crisis

Dec 05, 2008

Red Hat president and CEO Jim Whitehurst sees opportunities for open source firms that might be putting undue burden on their dwindling IT departments because of the current economic downturn.

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FEDORA 9 DVD INLAY

Dec 05, 2008
The Fedora project combines the benefits of Red Hat engineering with the freedom and flexibility of a community-base......
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openSUSE 11.0 DVD INLAY

Dec 05, 2008
OpenSUSE is the community arm of the venerable SUSE Linux – one of the oldest and most popular Linux distributions i......
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MANDRIVA 2009 DVD INLAY

Dec 05, 2008
Mandriva Linux is known around the world for easy installation and an innovative collection of configuration tools.......
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UBUNTU 8.10 DVD INLAY

Dec 05, 2008
The powerful and practical Ubuntu Linux is known around the world for reliability and ease of use. Ubuntu’s unclutte......
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Why Can't Computers Just Work All the Time?

Dec 04, 2008

The feud between Minix inventor and operating system czar Andrew W. Tanenbaum and Linux Torvalds is legendary in the OS world. Before Linux there was Minix. Torvalds used to be a Minix user who set up his first Linux version in 1991 on Professor Tanenbaum’s operating system. Mr. Tanenbaum has now agreed to write a guest editorial for Linux Magazine. His opinion has not changed over the years: Linux (and Windows) are “unreliable.”

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Debian Takes AGPL Software into Main

Dec 04, 2008

The FTP team at the Debian project have decided that the Affero GPL version 3 licensing (AGPLv3) is consistent enough with the guidelines of the Linux distro that software with the licensing can go into Debian's main archive.

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