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A week after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.1, Red Hat has announced the availability of a beta version of RHEL 5.7
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/red-hat-enterprise-linux-5-7-beta-released

Prior to being spun into MeeGo, Intel’s Moblin Linux distribution was one of the fastest-booting Linux distributions. Moblin worked phenomenally for Intel Atom netbooks with a great user-interface and was very quick at starting up. With the release this week of MeeGo 1.2, we have some Bootchart numbers for MeeGo 1.2 Netbook UX compared to Fedora 14 and Ubuntu 11.04.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/meego-1-2-boots-nearly-twice-as-fast-as-fedora-ubuntu

The RHEL 6.1 release provide improvements to networking connectivity, virtualization, performance and hardware support.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-1-adds-identity

RHEL 6.1 is an update to the flagship Linux operating system from Red Hat, which came out in its 6.0 version back in November 2010.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/rhel-6-1-lays-foundation-for-future-servers

Google has announced that Samsung and Acer will be making the first Chromebooks; instant-on, always-connected laptops that run…
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/googles-chrome-os-machines-arrive

AMD’s John Bridgman has now confirmed that they have hired two open-source developers.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/amd-already-adds-on-two-open-source-developers

https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/a-puffy-in-the-corporate-aquarium-openbsd
A look at OpenBSD in the enterprise

https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/a-slackware-review-ten-years-in-the-making
It was about a decade ago when I first gave Slackware a go. Back then most every Linux was far more of a challenge than were other operating systems, but Slackware offered challenges even other Linux variations didn’t. So when I set out to try the latest iteration of Slackware, I wondered how far it had advanced in that decade. Needless to say, I was excited about what I would find.

Red Hat and IBM have announced a new partnership to work together to make products and solutions based on KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) technology.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/red-hat-and-ibm-push-open-virtualization-into-the-enterprise

Red Hat is moving beyond its Cloud Foundations effort to deliver new Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/red-hat-debuts-cloudforms-and-openshift-for-cloud-deployment

Interview with Linux creator Linus Torvalds
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/interview-with-linus-torvalds

Zimbra product editions explained
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/zimbra-licensing-explained

Linux leader Red Hat has now been recognized for the strength of its patents, what is it doing with all that intellectual property?
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/what-is-the-value-of-red-hats-patents/

We have migrated one of our hosted Linux servers to an upgraded model with better hardware – sadly we had to say goodbye to 856 days uptime on the old box – not bad considering that it processed around 60,000 emails per day!
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/upgraded-dcdata-hosted-server-goodbye-856-days-uptime/

Red Hat’s latest update to Red Hat Linux 5.x
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/red-hat-enterprise-linux-5-6-now-available