Red Hat Archive

Get Over it Novell, Red Hat Will Never Be Microsoft

Submitted by anonymous 2005-11-01 Red Hat 36 Comments

"Over at the Novell public relations blog, they're wondering if Red Hat's Matthew Szulik's conversation with Geoffrey Moore at Vortex on avoiding lock-in has anything to do with BusinessWeek's recent article about Novell. The gist of the discussion is the eternal battle between those who see Red Hat as being on its way to the new Microsoft. I have to say that I get as sick and tired of these arguments as I did of eating macaroni and cheese when I was kid."

Red Hat Wants Xen in Linux Kernel

Thom Holwerda 2005-10-31 Red Hat 12 Comments

Linux vendor Red Hat is aggressively pushing to get Xen virtualization technology included in the Linux kernel as quickly as possible. Brian Stevens, the newly appointed chief technology officer of the company, said that previous efforts to merge Xen into the kernel ran out of steam when nobody stepped forward to drive them. Red Hat is now stepping forward, Stevens said.

Red Hat Readies for Government Scrutiny

Thom Holwerda 2005-10-30 Red Hat 33 Comments

"There have been a couple of runs at trusted operating systems in the past, but the difference between what's out there now and what we're announcing is that, in the Linux world, we'll have trusted capabilities in a standard distribution," said Paul Smith of Red Hat.

Red Hat CEO Decries Open Source Pretenders

Submitted by anonymous 2005-10-27 Red Hat 6 Comments

Red Hat is shying away from taking "control" of its relationship with customers and instead hopes to become a thought leader that champions innovation through freedom of the community. Matthew Szulik, Red Hat chief executive, chairman and president, said Wednesday it was wrong to think companies like Red Hat could control what the open source community builds and that it's important to stay true to the premise of the Gnu General Public License.

Red Hat Names New CTO

Submitted by Rahul 2005-10-12 Red Hat 5 Comments

Enterprise Linux software maker Red Hat Tuesday announced that it has appointed Brian Stevens as its new chief technology officer and vice president of engineering.

Red Hat CEO Unmoved by Linux Consolidation

Thom Holwerda 2005-10-10 Red Hat 15 Comments

There are over 300 distributions listed on DistroWatch.com, but Red Hat's CEO, Matthew Szulik, maintained that choice and specialization outweighed any advantage that might be gained by focusing customer attention on a smaller number of offerings.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Will Be Goverment Certified Trusted OS

Submitted by Rahul 2005-09-28 Red Hat 12 Comments

Red Hat, with help from IBM and Trusted Computing Solutions, plans to put its operating system through the paces of the National Information Assurance Partnership's Common Criteria evaluation program to create the first "trusted" Linux operating system.

Touring Red Hat Network 4

Submitted by Jan Stafford 2005-09-22 Red Hat 30 Comments

"I've used Red Hat Network successfully in the past, so I was happy to get my hands on a demo of Red Hat Network 4, which is in the process of being released. Before I drill down into RHN4, I have to say RHN4's new features are cool, particularly the ones that enable you to manage Unix-based Solaris servers and monitor systems more effectively."

Oracle, Others Support Red Hat Cluster File System

Submitted by Rahul 2005-09-19 Red Hat 2 Comments

Red Hat announced on Monday at Oracle's OpenWorld in San Francisco that Oracle, EMC and Network Appliance now support its Global File System. The file system is based on the several technologies obtained by Red Hat in its 2003 purchase of Minneapolis-based Sistina Software. Red Hat then worked on the code and open-sourced it in June 2004.

Red Hat Network Gains Solaris, Monitoring Support

Thom Holwerda 2005-08-10 Red Hat 17 Comments

Red Hat's announcement that it is adding network and system monitoring to Red Hat Network isn't that much of a surprise. More unexpected is Red Hat's decision to support Solaris with it. In other news, the Fedora Foundation has been delayed.

Oracle Leads with Red Hat for Database Update

David Adams 2005-07-13 Red Hat 11 Comments

Oracle Corp has released the second version of its Database 10g product, but in a move that highlight's Linux's ascendancy on the server, this version will be initially available only on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Red Hat India Sponsors “Scholarships”

David Adams 2005-06-25 Red Hat 30 Comments

Red Hat Scholarships is a coding contest for Indian college students whose aim is to "speed up the adoption of open source software in India and make India a proud contributor to the global open source community." Contest organizers have posted eight challenges, such as "Development of open source Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) frameworks," and individuals or teams will recive support during their creation of the new software, and the best contribution will win a cash prize. All sumbissions must be licensed under an Open Source license.

Getting started with RHEL4’s built-in LVM tools

Eugenia Loli 2005-06-03 Red Hat 25 Comments

"Many Unix administrators always used to smirk when I talked about Linux. They could always point to the fact that regardless of whatever I could say, they had journaling file systems, which they could manage using various Logical Volume Management (LVM) tools, and I couldn't touch that." Read the article here.

Red Hat to Open-Source Netscape Directory

Eugenia Loli 2005-05-26 Red Hat 30 Comments

Next week, Red Hat is planning to release into open source the Netscape Directory technology it acquired in September 2004.

Red Hat explains SELinux targeted policy

Submitted by Tammy Fox 2005-04-15 Red Hat 20 Comments

The release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 debuts the first commercially supported inclusion of Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux). Russell Coker from the Red Hat SELinux team explains the default targeted policy.

Red Hat tests dual-core support

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-13 Red Hat 13 Comments

Red Hat on Friday began testing support for forthcoming dual-core processors in its first update to its Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or RHEL, software.

Red Hat Linux 4.0 offers power, security

Eugenia Loli 2005-04-04 Red Hat 31 Comments

In a Clear Choice test of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, (tested RHEL 4.0 Advanced Server, Red Hat’s most robust Linux distribution), ComputerWorld found huge performance gains over previous editions, beefed up security options and vastly improved hardware detection mechanisms.

Adelstein: Red Hat Desktop Goes to the Head of the Class

Submitted by Sam Hiser 2005-03-28 Red Hat 20 Comments

Tom Adelstein, distinguished analyst at Hiser + Adelstein in New York, says in his review today on Linux Journal that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) destkop (not Fedora)--this is the one selling in units of 10 for $2,500--"meets and exceeds" the criteria established by the Open Source Maturity Model and most surely the standards established by the legacy desktop system many organizations are finding to be unacceptably compromised and overbought.

Programmers bypass Red Hat Linux fees

Eugenia Loli 2005-03-24 Red Hat 108 Comments

It took Red Hat 16 months to produce the newest version of its premium Linux product, which went on sale in February for as much as $2,499 per computer per year. It took a group of programmers less than two weeks to release a free clone. But the move could help Red Hat as much as it appears to hurt it.

Analyst weighs in on the future of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Eugenia Loli 2005-03-18 Red Hat 8 Comments

Tony Iams is no stranger to operating systems. A senior analyst with Ideas International in Port Chester, New York, Iams spends much of his time working with users - and vendors - of the latest operating systems. SearchEnterpriseLinux.com sat down with Iams to discuss the recently released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL 4). In this interview, Iams talks about some of the new features of RHEL 4 and explains the direction the operating system will take in the future.