June, 2008

At Usenix ’08, worker productivity focus a bone of contention

At Usenix '08, held in Boston June 22-27, many system administrators bemoaned the newfound emphasis on worker productivity, complaining that their bosses' attempts to measure their work has in fact hindered their work. Managers are...

Fedora 9 LiveUSB: Operating systems on the go

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/sgz7PgBA9EA" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] This blog post was written by Matt McDonough, assistant editor. If the enthusiasm of Fedora Project ...

Red Hat/Groundwork faciliate university’s high-performance computing

At the University of Utah, scientists who require access to computational resources rely on the Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC), a facility that maintains 872 nodes across three clusters. To run those clusters, the CHPC relies on...

Red Hat Summit draws record crowds; attendance up 50%

This post was written by Pam Derringer, news writer. Red Hat Inc. attracted about 1,500 attendees to its fourth annual Red...

Support booth a hit at Red Hat Summit

This post was written by Pam Derringer, news writer.

Business was brisk at Iain Gray's support booth during the fourth annual Red Hat Summit this week in Boston.

Offered for the first time, the highly visible red and white booth was...

Red Hat previews virtual management tool

At a mid-morning session during the Red Hat Summit in Boston today, a standing-room only crowd of more than 125 attendees got a preview of oVirt, a “next-generation open...

Intel executive asserts commitment to open source

During the partner keynote presentation at the Red Hat Summit today, Boyd Davis, the general manager of server platforms group marketing at Intel Corp., reiterated...

IBM makes the case for cloud computing at Red Hat Summit

This post was written by Bridget Botelho, news writer. The first hour of keynote addresses at the fourth annual Red Hat Summit at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston wrapped up with Jim Stallings, the general manager of enterprise systems division of IBM.

Red Hat Summit heats up with fire alarm

Fire alarms blared and barely audible announcements urged Red Hat Summit attendees to evacuate the Hynes Convention Center at about 10:15 a.m. but no one heeded the call and left the building. Can't beat open source for really hot stuff! So far, it's agenda as scheduled.

Great planning coincides Red Hat Summit, Celtics victory, CEO says

Red Hat CEO and President Jim Whitehurst began his opening keynote of Red Hat’s fourth annual Summit today by crediting event organizers for coordinating the Summit event with last night’s Celtics victory over the Los Angeles Lakers.

“We got...