Red Hat, Canonical accused of being traitors to the open sauce cause
OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt has waded into Red Hat and Canonical over the way that the pair have reacted to Microsoft’s introduction of “secure” boot. De Raadt told ITWIre that the pair wanted to be...
View ArticleAMD and ARM team up for server chips
AMD has branched out from the x86 platform, announcing that it will begin production of server processors using ARM designs in 2014. AMD will produce 64-bit multicore SoCs as new approaches are...
View ArticleRed Hat feuds with Rising Tide Systems
A row has erupted between two Linux distributors with one of them accusing the other of breaching the GPL. In open source land that is the sort of accusation which is so serious that the honour can...
View ArticleGoogle's Chrome declares Red Hat 'obsolete'
Google has declared Red Hat’s RHEL 6 as obsolete which means that users can’t use new versions of Chrome. RHEL 6 was released at the end of 2010 and the next version of RHEL, version 7, will not be...
View ArticleLinus Torvalds blasts Microsoft in sweary tirade
Linux guru Linus Torvalds is at it again. After telling Nvidia to go forth and multiply, the outspoken Torvalds has decided to share some of his thoughts on Microsoft’s signing techniques in a heated...
View ArticleRed Hat warns world of patent trolls
Red Hat’s Fedora engineering manager Tom Callaway told LinuxCon that it would only take one patent troll to get past its defences and the company would be shut down. Callaway said the threat could not...
View ArticleIBM intros Linux only mainframes
IBM said that it has introduced two Linux mainframe servers which it claims are the most powerful and secure enterprise servers. Dubbed LinuxONE, the mainframes use the SuSE Linux distribution while...
View ArticleRed Hat outlook improves thanks to cloud
Linux outfit Red Hat reported a 13 percent rise in quarterly revenue, helped by higher demand for open-source software and cloud offerings. The company’s net income rose to $51.4 million, or 28 cents...
View ArticleRed Hat is first $2 billion open sourcer
Red Hat has become the first $2 billion dollar open saucy company and doubled its value from four years ago. What is unusual is that Red Hat made all its value by earning the money rather than fleecing...
View ArticleRed Hat doing well
Open saucy Red Hat’s third quarter results were rather good. Its third quarter total revenue of $615 million, up 18 per cent year-over-year. Its third quarter total subscription revenue was $543...
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