I’d been waiting for Oracle to throw its hat into the ring for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Linux source-code fight. I knew it was only a matter of time. On July 10, Oracle’s Edward Screven, chief corporate architect, … Continue reading →

When Red Hat changed how users and companies access its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) source code, the North Carolina-based software company likely never expected the move to blow up the way it has. First, the RHEL clone distributors — … Continue reading →

I started using social networking in the days of Usenet and online services, such as CompuServe, GEnie, and Prodigy. I’m still a heavy social-network user. Today, besides the usual, I’m also on the newer, would-be Twitter replacements, including…Read More

Opinion What is Red Hat thinking? It’s not Red Hat’s fault, I blame IBM for the company’s recent Linux code licensing changes and all the misery it unleashed. While I know about Red Hat as well as any outsider can, … Continue reading →

“Will you still need me? Will you still feed me? When I’m sixty-four.” OK, so we can be certain that John Lennon and Paul McCartney weren’t thinking about Linux when they wrote this classic Beatles song. But, we can also … Continue reading →

It all began with an unassuming blog post, “Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream,” by Mike McGrath, Red Hat’s vice president of Core Platforms. For the non-Hatters among you, Core Platforms is the division in charge of Red Hat Enterprise … Continue reading →