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How badly is CentOS hurting Red Hat?

Why does Red Hat tolerate CentOS? The Community ENTerprise Operating System is an identical binary clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (minus the trademarks), compiled from the source code RPMs that Red Hat conveniently provides on its FTP site. It is read more »
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Red Hat, Amazon Deliver Linux on Demand

Red Hat has made its Enterprise Linux OS available on demand by releasing it for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service that hosts business applications. The move is part of Red Hat's so-called "automation" strategy, which aims to deliver read more »
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Linux On Half Of All New Servers? Red Hat's Got Plans

Red Hat is partnering with Amazon to offer Linux-based computing power as an on-call computer resource, letting companies scale up applications without building a bigger data center. That Linux-on-demand idea has sizzle, but there are other interest read more »
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Car computer runs Red Flag Linux

DingCheng Electronics has announced a GPS-enabled PC that fits "double DIN" stereo bays. The CarPC 102 has a 4x45W amp, and runs Red Flag Linux or Windows on a 1.1GHz Pentium M processor, with 256MB RAM, 40GB hard drive, DVD/CD-RW drive, and 7-inc read more »
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Tour of GNOME Online Desktop

Here’s a tour of the pre-alpha demo release of GNOME Online Desktop included in Fedora 8. Learn more about what it does and how you can get involved in the project.

What is it?

GNOME Online Desktop is an alternate “mode” or flavor of the GNOME read more »
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I dunno what people mean when they talk about RPM hell

When people talk about RPM dependency hell, I really have no idea what they’re talking about. Here’s a factual look into RPM that should set the record straight:

The strengths of RPM
* No indirections — 100% of the times, the manifest correspond read more »
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Aiming for the Clouds: The Red Hat Q&A

There were a couple of releases accompanying Red Hat’s call on the 7th, but the two most interesting pieces of news as far as I’m concerned were the announcement of its Appliance Operating System (AOS) and the revelation that Red Hat would be availa read more »
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Red Hat, Novell issue back-to-back announcements

In the past 24 hours, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) beta became available to the public through Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud service. While RHEL has been available in limited beta for a few weeks, this public beta announcement comes right be read more »
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HowTo: Determine RedHat and Fedora release version

A quick blog post on how to determine your Fedora release name and its release version. For several years of staying and working under a company with multiple linux distributions and versions, multiple OS upgrades and server redundcancy backups make read more »
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Wow! Red Hat can sling some mud!

I woke up early this morning to catch an early flight out… and thought I’d check my email. What did I find, but this headline: “Red Hat exec says Novell sells beta code” which is a ZDnet UK blog entry.

So, first of all — I don’t have first hand k read more »
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