Red Hat: Yes, Windows 8 Machines Will Run Linux
Red Hat has moved to ease fears that the new secure boot mechanism included Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system will make it overly difficult to also install Linux on Windows 8 machines.
View ArticleLinus Torvalds: Windows 8 Secure Boot Doesn’t Destroy Linux
Many Linux lovers are worried that Microsoft's new Secure Boot technology will make it more difficult to get the open source operating system onto machines that originally ship with Windows 8. But...
View ArticleHybrid Cloud, PaaS Mark ‘New Era for Red Hat’
Red Hat is gearing up to deliver products to build hybrid clouds in coming months, the company announced at its conference on Wednesday. Will they be cloud game-changers?
View ArticleNSA Mimics Google, Pisses Off Senate
In 2008, a small team of coders inside the National Security Agency started reverse-engineering the database that ran Google. They closely followed the Google research paper describing BigTable -- the...
View ArticleWill OpenStack Wearing Red Hat Give it Cred?
As Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at ZDNet writes, Red Hat has long supported OpenStack cloud software, but only in theory. In practice, however, the Linux giant wouldn’t commit to OpenStack — until now....
View ArticlePrivate Clouds Get Public Boost From Red Hat
The OpenStack project got a boost today when Red Hat released a preview version of its own version of the open source cloud software.
View ArticleFedora Linux Lets You Choose Your Own GUI Adventure
Linux fans hope that the interface changes in Windows 8 will drive more users to Linux. But the open source operating system is facing interface challenges of its own. Part of the problem is that --...
View ArticleGoogle Erects Patent Shield for the Open Source Internet
Behind the scenes, just about all of the web's biggest names are mimicking Google. That includes Facebook, Yahoo, eBay, Twitter, and so many more.
View ArticleBy the Time the Cloud Matures, It Could Be Too Late for IT
Red Hat’s annual conference in Boston this year features a major foray into cloud computing, with a commitment to OpenStack, the open source cloud alternative gunning for market traction against...
View ArticleHell Freezes Over in Linux Land as Red Hat Makes Nice With Its Clone
Today, Linux vendor Red Hat announced that it’s entering a partnership to help develop CentOS, the project that cloned its flagship software in an effort to get around its license fees. The two...
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