A shot in the arm for enterprise Linux
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
After this week's news of the 
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International Space Station adopts Debian Linux, drops Windows & Red Hat into airlock
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
It's nothing to do with Windows 8 and the lack of a 'Start' button (or orb) at all. But reports from the Linux Foundation...
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Red Hat opens RDO OpenStack community
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The Red Hat OpenStack "offering" has moved into what the company now labels as its Early Adopter Programme. In line with this advancement we also learn of the availability of RDO, a community-supported distribution of OpenStack that runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and their...
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South Korean malware hides Linux-wiper inside Windows
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
As tensions rise across the length of the Korean peninsula, the spectre of Linux focused malware vulnerabilities in South Korean has thrown an increasingly eerie shadow over events currently unfolding. Recent cyber attacks against South Korean banks and local broadcasting organisations have led...
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Greenfield Linux growth is fertile growth area
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The nonprofit Linux Foundation has this week released its 2013 Enterprise End User Report entitled "Linux Adoption: Third Annual Survey of World's Largest Enterprise Linux Users."
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Hispalinux: Windows 8 “obstruction mechanism” blocks Linux
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
Spanish open source group Hispalinux has filed a complaint in front of the European Commission with regard to Microsoft Corporation's positioning of Windows 8 and its wider openness. The 8000 member developer group has constructed and filed an anti-trust...
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China develops Ubuntu Kylin麒麟 open source OS
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
China has embarked upon a five-year plan to encourage the use of open source operating systems and software. To facilitate this initiative, China is working to build a home-grown Chinese developed version of Canonical's Ubuntu to be labeled Ubuntu Kylin. NOTE: Unconfirmed reports...
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Embedded industrial Linux drives Mars Rover
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The proximity of Linux to server-side back-office heavyweight environments has been a characteristic of open source operating system environments since their early beginnings. It should be of no major surprise then to see that our embedded industrial computing world is embracing open computing...
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Software innovation will blast monolithic hardware
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The forward "predictions for 2013" pre-Christmas honeymoon is now thankfully over. Time enough then... for a serious look at software futures. The so called "explosive amount of structured and unstructured data" is, as we know, having a profound impact upon cloud, middleware, storage and...
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A minor Enterprise Linux symphony
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
Red Hat has released an unashamedly labelled 'minor' release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This 5.9 version features better hardware enablement, security and certification improvements, improved developer tools and refined virtualisation technologies. The firm positions these so-called minor...
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