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Java - 100 per cent open source by end of this year
News Because these could not be offered under the GNU General Public Licence, this stopped OpenJDK - used in the Fedora and Ubuntu Linux distributions - being fully compatible with Java. Sun is to open source the last closed-source parts of Java, a move... [28 Apr 2008]
Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards
News Apart from this, its main desktop focus will be its commercial, supported Enterprise Linux Desktop, as well as the free unsupported Fedora desktop. Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop version of Linux to compete... [21 Apr 2008]
Running Linux on the PlayStation 3: More Than a Toy
White Paper The supported installer ran a custom script that hand-mangled a Fedora Core 5 or 6 install DVD into a runnable system with a special PS3 kernel. The Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) runs Linux, but getting it to run well requires some tweaking. [09 Apr 2008]
Red Hat pushes Linux as a service model
Virtualisation in RHEL is provided by the popular Xen hypervisor, although the company also supports KVM in its Fedora software. Red Hat announced a new "appliance" version of RHEL for release next year, which could move software vendors to a new... [08 Nov 2007]
Linux Desktop Hacks: Jazz Up Your Debian System Boot
White Paper Windows and Mac OS X have a graphical boot process, as do all the most popular versions of Linux, including Fedora Core (Red Hat), SUSE, and Mandrake. Here's how to add a graphical boot splash to the Debian distribution, the only popular Linux... [24 Oct 2007]
Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Fedora: Connecting to the Internet
White Paper This paper explains how to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora Core to connect to the Internet via a telephone dialup, Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), Ethernet, or wireless connection. [17 Oct 2007]
Fedora Linux - Quick Start: Installing Fedora
White Paper Fedora is a powerful, fast-changing, freely available operating system. Before one invests time and effort in Linux, one needs to decide if Fedora is the right distribution. It can be used as a productive desktop or server environment, or it can be... [10 Oct 2007]
Intel aims to cut Linux power usage
For instance, a current laptop running Red Hat's Fedora 7 uses about 21 watts. Intel has launched a green Linux project — "LessWatts.org" — designed to reduce the power consumption of Linux servers and PCs. [24 Sep 2007]
Google launches Desktop for Linux
It supports the Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10, Novell Suse 10.1 and Red Flag 5 versions of Linux, and uses either the KDE or Gnome graphical user interface. Google was set to launch late on Wednesday a beta version of Google Desktop search... [28 Jun 2007]
Mandriva latest to spurn Microsoft
Red Hat's Fedora is number three, followed by Debian, then Mandriva. Mandriva has followed other Linux distributors, such as Canonical and Red Hat, in publicly spurning Microsoft's advances for a patent-protection deal. [22 Jun 2007]
Repository-Based System Management Using Conary
White Paper The rise of distributions such as Fedora and Gentoo has moved the development of Linux distributions from small, tightly-connected groups to widely-dispersed groups of informal collaborators. There have been few advances in software packaging... [18 May 2007]
Red Hat gets real about KVM virtualisation
News Red Hat, the dominant Linux seller, will include KVM (kernel virtual machine) in the next version of its hobbyist Linux version - Fedora - according to chief technology officer Brian Stevens. We're packaging it for Fedora 7," Stevens said. [15 Feb 2007]
Red Hat's JBoss plan: Divide and conquer?
News Red Hat's strategy for Linux profits has been to offer a free, fast-changing version called Fedora and a supported, more stable version called Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Rhel). With JBoss, Peters said: "One thing we're trying to address is the... [17 Nov 2006]
One $100 laptop rolls off the production line
News The machine on display this week is running Fedora Core 5.0, Bender said. The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) crusade for low-cost PCs for developing nations is another step closer to the assembly line. The not-for-profit organisation this week is... [25 May 2006]
Alternative Linux Distributions for POWER Processor-Based Systems: A Review of Unsupported Linux Distributions Running on POWER5
White Paper After discussing their test environment, the paper attempts to install Debian, Gentoo, openSUSE 10, and Fedora Core 4 on an IBM eServer OpenPower 720 system in a variety of configurations. This paper reviews several alternative Linux distributions... [05 Apr 2006]
