Red Hat Warms to Itanium-booster Plan
The leading Linux seller is exploring Intel technology that improves the ability of the chipmaker's Itanium processor to run older software written for Xeon or Pentium chips.
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Linux ‘Just Works’ For Me (or, how I came to love Red Hat and Gnome)
I keep reading all these tales of woe of people having bad experiences with Linux. Sure, I've had my own bad experiences, across many an OS, but just lately I've been running a Red Hat Linux 9 desktop full-time at home and have yet to run into any major issue. What follows is an overview of my personal experiences with Linux. But first, a bit about me.
Review – Training Course for Red Hat Linux
This interactive course will certainly introduce Red Hat Linux to a broader audience because it's definitely fun to learn this way. What's very handy is that the end of each lecture you'll be able to test your knowledge with self-assessment questions. Read more at Help Net Security.
Red Hat Linux 9: A Step Closer, But Still With Some Annoyances
The up to now highly anticipated Red Hat Linux 9 is finally released. OSNews had its hands to the final version of Red Hat Linux 9 for over 3 weeks now and we were able to evaluate it in a number of ways. The final version is not too different than the Phoebe-3 beta for which we wrote a preview recently.
ExtremeTech Review: Red Hat 9 Marks Strategic Shift
"Red Hat has become one of the most widely deployed Linux distributions in the Enterprise space, and has long been a favorite of Linux devotees. Red Hat 8 introduced a new Gnome-based GUI that gave the OS a unique look and feel, and the company has continued to add more proprietary configuration tools designed to make system tweaking a graphical, rather than a command-line process." Read the article at ExtremeTech.
Red Hat Linux 9 Review
This is by no means a technical review - it is just a summary of my experience as I was going along, installing and configuring a Red Hat Linux 9 machine. I installed the standard "workstation" installation on my 2 year old desktop machine. I like Gnome at home, KDE at work, but this review only covers my experience with the default Gnome installation.
Red Hat 9 Offers Continutity, Transparency for Users
LinuxPlanet reviews Red Hat Linux 9. Another story, by Guru Labs, is written mostly for system admins. Also, MozillaQuest has published a brief interview with Mark de Visser, Vice President of Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat Linux 9 Officially Released
DistroWatch has the details of the official release: The press release has all the details with links to further information, such as features and benefits, product description of the Personal and Professional editions, technical details and the package list. Red Hat Linux 9 is available for immediate download to paid subscribers to Red Hat Network (US$60 per year). It will be released to FTP servers on 7 April. Update: Release notes on the newly created "Shrike" mailing list. New Nvidia drivers here. Update 2: How to add the Java plugin on RH 9.
Red Hat, Mp3 and the Home Desktop Market
A long thread has started in the phoebe-list over at Red Hat, people arguing that Mp3 capabilities should/shouldn't be included in Red Hat's products. Mike Harris of Red Hat replied to the issue and gave a clear answer about the facts.
Red Hat Linux 9 Forces Reliability Gamble
Changes to core packages in Red Hat Linux 9 can potentially impact thousands of applications, says eWeek in their review of Red Hat Linux 9. OSNews also featured a Red Hat Linux 9 review recently, and we have one more coming up soon.
Red Hat Linux 9 – World’s First Look at Shrike
I installed Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike) to see what has changed between it and the previous major version of Red Hat (8.0). The article features some installation screenshots and of course some post-install screenshots showing Bluecurve in Gnome and KDE (more shots here), user experience and discussion of whether you should upgrade or not.
Red Hat Linux 9 Available March 31st
According to an e-mail sent by Red Hat earlier today, Red Hat Linux 9.0 will be available over the Red Hat Network on March 31 and available via FTP and in stores one week later on April 7. While there are few other details and no pricing information, a Red Hat subscription is still $60 USD per system/year. Update: Why 9.0 and not 8.1? This post explains...
Linux Suit Could Hurt Red Hat
SCO's lawsuit filed in Utah last week claims that IBM integrated computer code belonging to another company into the Linux operating system, touching off speculation that the lawsuit could hurt other Linux companies, including Red Hat, the country's largest distributor of the software. Red Hat isn't involved in the dispute, but some analysts say that the Raleigh-based company won't be able to escape the fallout. "It's kind of irrelevant who wins the lawsuit," said Victor Raisys, analyst with Soundview Technology Group in San Francisco. "You can't take back the fact that someone has tried to claim intellectual property on Linux. The genie is out of the bottle."
Red Hat Readies Low-End Linux
Top Linux seller Red Hat will unveil today a new phase in its plan to profit from a premium product, introducing a new lower-priced version of its Advanced Server software, along with a new brand name.
Hacking Red Hat Kickstart
Most of the savings from Linux desktops come from reduced administration costs--like rolling a custom RPM-based load that installs itself. Read the article online at LinuxJournal. On the printed version of the new issue of the LinuxJournal magazine, you will find "The Grand Unified Desktop" by Marco Fioretti: "Applications written for a variety of toolkits are coming together in a free best-of-breed desktop. To work together seamlessly, though, they need to follow important new standards."
Red Hat Sees No Threat in UnitedLinux
Top Linux seller Red Hat may be newly profitable, but the company continues to face competition from rival vendors--especially the UnitedLinux consortium. To combat the challenge from UnitedLinux--a partnership of SuSE, SCO Group, Turbolinux and Conectiva--Red Hat has become more aggressive in the corporate marketplace, readying "advanced" versions of its server and workstation products that it also hopes will help it take on Microsoft's Windows operating system.
Impressions of Phoebe, the Latest RedHat 8.1 Beta
Frank writes: "A new beta recently appeared from RedHat and this article has in-depth analysis of the release and finds many different problems with it." Please note that OSNews also published a preview of Red Hat 8.1-Phoebe3 a few days ago, accompanied by screenshots.
Red Hat: Debating Enterprise Linux Momentum Futile
The days of defending Linux momentum in the enterprise may rapidly be coming to a close. Red Hat executive Mark de Visser gets to the heart of the matter with SearchEnterpriseLinux.com, pointing out that moving from a proprietary Unix system to Linux on Intel results in "10x price-performance improvements" in many cases. De Visser covers more in this question-and-answer interview, specifically the inhibitors to Linux adoption in the enterprise, Red Hat's focus on certain vertical markets, customer demands and the maturation of the open-source platform.
Mini-Report on Red Hat Phoebe 8.0.94 (8.1-Beta 3)
Red Hat is the undisputed commercial leader when it comes to Linux distros. A few years ago more distros were sharing the Linux market/userbase, but these days Red Hat has overcome its competitors in impressions, sales and popularity. Popularity doesn't always mean quality though (look at Windows9x for example), so after our world's first review of Red Hat 8.0 a few months ago, I wanted to check out the new product, Red Hat 8.1, destined to be released sometime in the next one or two months. I downloaded and installed the third beta of 8.1, codenamed Phoebe, and gave it a whirl. We will be featuring a full review when the final version becomes available, but here is a preliminary report on the current status, accompanied by three screenshots. Update: Added one more screenshot.