Practical Technology

Get over it people. Red Hat is not getting acquired anytime soon. I know, I know, you’d heard all the rumors. Here’s the truth as I see it: If Red Hat gets acquired anytime soon, I’ll eat my fedora. It’s not happening. What is happening, as Paul Cormier, EVP of Red Hat, announced this morning [...]

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Last week, Greg DeKoenigsberg, a former Red Hat developer on the Fedora community Linux project and now CTO of ISKME (The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education) ignited a firestorm by showing that, when it comes to code, Red Hat does far more for open-source projects like GNOME than Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent [...]

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Even a Linux fan might not have heard of CentOS Linux, but if you’re a Web or other edge-server administrator I can guarantee you know about CentOS. That’s because, according to Web Technology Surveys, in July 2010, “For the first time, CentOS is now leading the Linux distribution statistics on web servers with almost 30% [...]

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When Fedora 13, Goddard, is released on May 25 it’s not going to be your usual Fedora Linux release. In the past, Fedora has been seen as a great Linux distribution… for Linux experts. Paul W. Frields, the Fedora Project leader, told me though that this release is much new user-friendly and that it’s no [...]

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Today’s news that TSE (Tokyo Stock Exchange) has moved to Red Hat’s RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) as the operating platform for its next-generation “Arrowhead” trading system shouldn’t come as any surprise. Linux has become the smart stock market’s operating system of choice. Red Hat has been working with TSE and Fujitsu for some time [...]

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