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Collective Linux development model will be tough to beat, report says

The humble penguin is mascot of quite a treasure. According to an updated Linux Foundation study, to build from scratch today, the Linux kernel would cost $1.4...

American Idol vs. Britney: Why open source will prevail, Red Hat says

Red Hat CEO and supersalesman Jim Whitehurst sure knows how to keep things simple. In yet another global tour pitching Red Hat, Whitehurst compared the open source development model to American Idol, the TV show that propelled country singer Carrie...

Novell promotes SLES in 11-city Linux tour

Waltham, Mass.-based Novell Inc. wrapped up a whirlwind three-week U.S. tour promoting SUSE Linux Enterprise yesterday with a packed presentation at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge, a...

Linux Foundation caves to pressure, closes summit to press

The Linux Foundation’s job is promote the use of Linux-based open source software, whose code is freely available for anyone to examine, modify and distribute as they please. Yet the foundation’s first

‘Open source cheaper’ story sparks debate

October 2, 2008  2:23 PM

‘Scientific’ Red Hat to crunch numbers of Hadron Collider

Posted by: Dkr
Linux, Open source applications, Red Hat, TechTarget Blogs

According to an article in Linux Today, CERN’s huge Large Hadron Collider, the largest atom smasher in the world, runs on a customized version...

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October 2, 2008  2:17 PM

Fedora gets mixed review in ‘girlfriend test’

Posted by: Dkr
Fedora Linux, Linux, Linux blogs and news, Linux humor, Linux versus Windows, Open source applications, TechTarget Blogs

Everyone agrees that the Linux desktop has a lot of work ahead to transform itself from a techie obsession to the intuitive, user-friendly desktop of a Macintosh or Windows machine. Even Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the popular Ubuntu Linux desktop,

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September 18, 2008  8:18 PM

Novell pledges to fix ZenWorks snafu

Posted by: Dkr
SUSE/Novell, TechTarget Blogs

Sometimes stories about customer problems have happy endings. One day after publication, the Novell ZenWorks problem that I blogged about Sept. 17 appears to be on its way to resolution. Not that resolution was speedy; the issue was the topic of numerous...

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September 18, 2008  6:09 PM

Red Hat boosts open source at new CUNY lab, national campus tour

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Fedora Linux, Linux, Linux blogs and news, Open source applications, Red Hat, TechTarget Blogs