Microsoft has announced the creation of a wholly owned subsidiary of the company, called Microsoft Open Technologies. Jean Paoli, who is currently General Manager of Interoperability Strategy at Microsoft and is one of the co-creators of the XML standard, will be leading the new company. The new group will comprise fifty to seventy-five employees from Paoli’s current team at Microsoft. … Read More
Red Hat and IBM sign on to OpenStack Foundation
OpenStack, the open source cloud software developing organisation, has announced that nineteen companies have signed a “Framework acknowledgement Letter” marking the start of the legal creation of an OpenStack Foundation. With the move to the foundation-based governance model, both Red Hat and IBM have now joined OpenStack and will be joining the Foundation as “Platinum” members. Full story
Red Hat donates $100,000 to “the future of open source”
Following its record annual revenue of more than one billion dollars, Red Hat has announced that it is making a donation of $100,000 (£62,400) to “the future of open source”. In a post on Red Hat’s opensource.com community site, President and CEO Jim Whitehurst says that the “billion dollar milestone is not only a win for Red Hat – it … Read More
Red Hat revenues exceed a billion dollars
Red Hat has recorded an annual revenue of a billion dollars with its latest fourth quarter results, making it the first “pure play” open source company to make a billion dollar revenue in one year. The company reported a fourth quarter revenue of $297 million, up 21 per cent compared to the same quarter a year before. This brought it … Read More
Microsoft’s Lessons Learned From Linux
Another session taking place next week at the 6th Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, besides Qualcomm allegedly wanting to kill all proprietary drivers, is two Microsoft engineers talking about their Linux driver development experiences. The session, entitled “Microsoft’s Journey to the Linux Kernel”, is to be presented by Tom Hanrahan and Ky Srinivasan. Hanrahan serves as Microsoft’s program manager for Linux … Read More
Archiving Images with an Open Source Scanning Robot
Project Gado is developing an inexpensive, open source, autonomous archival scanning robot. The goal? To create a tool that will allow small archives and museums digitize holdings at a low cost and help preserve important documents and pictures. In the process of developing the Gado, the ambitious project is also helping preserve the Afro-American Newspapers photo collection. Founded in 2010, … Read More
Hands-on: GNOME 3.4 arrives, introducing significant design changes
The developers behind the GNOME project have announced GNOME 3.4, a new version of the desktop environment. The update brings several significant new features and a number of design and usability improvements. GNOME is an open source software stack that provides a desktop shell, applications, and development frameworks that are commonly used on the Linux platform. It is the default … Read More
Red Hat family tree
An interesting look back at the history of Red Hat Linux and it’s derivatives: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Redhat_family_tree_11-06.png
Scientific Linux, the Great Distro With the Wrong Name
Scientific Linux is an unknown gem, one of the best Red Hat Enterprise Linux clones. The name works against it because it’s not for scientists; rather it’s maintained by science organizations. Let’s kick the tires on the latest release and see what makes it special. Full story
Telkom lines update
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What’s the best Linux server for you?
Whatever your size, there’s a distribution that fits When it comes to clothes, I’m a normal guy. I just want to walk into a store, grab something that fits, buy it (What, try it on? Are you kidding!?), and head home. Well, that’s what I want to do. I’ve learned over the years that just because something should fit doesn’t … Read More
Samsung Has G2D Driver, Virtual Display For Linux 3.4
Besides the DRM work already piling up for Linux 3.4, there’s more. The Samsung developers responsible for the Exynos graphics driver have sent in their “-next” pull request, which brings several new features, including the basis of 2D acceleration for this open-source ARM graphics driver. There’s also a virtual display driver that could be used for handling wireless displays. Full … Read More
PHP 5.4 Release Brings Many Changes
PHP 5.4.0 was officially released today as a major advancement over the PHP 5.3 code-base. Among the many improvements to PHP 5.4 is support for language traits, a shortened array syntax, a built-in web-server, compatibility changes, and many other improvements. Full story
ClearOS 6.2 Moves A Step Closer To Release
While all the major RHEL derivatives are now up to version 6.2 in par with upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux (see the RHEL vs. Oracle vs. CentOS vs. Scientific Linux benchmarks), ClearOS is still in beta for its 6.2 milestone. ClearOS, which formerly was known as ClarkConnect, is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS. While ClarkConnect was known … Read More