Posts Tagged ‘red hat’

The Business Lessons Behind Commercial Open Source

As the world of commercial open source software has grown, numerous business models have taken shape surrounding free products. Just consider Red Hat’s business model, which consists of selling support and services for open source software.

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The Business Lessons Behind Commercial Open Source

Xen Cut from RHEL 6

Red Hat pushed out a beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 this week with a long list of new features, and one that didn’t make the cut: Xen.

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Xen Cut from RHEL 6

In Defense of Distro-hopping

Brian Proffitt recently tackled the topic of distro-hopping over on LinuxPlanet. Proffitt wonders whether the practice might be passe or something to be discouraged, but it’s here to stay and should be encouraged rather than looked at askew

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In Defense of Distro-hopping

Measuring FAIL: A Scorecard for Evaluating Open Source Projects

Ever wonder whether a given FLOSS project is going to succeed or flounder? Need a little help reading the tea leaves?

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Measuring FAIL: A Scorecard for Evaluating Open Source Projects

Ksplice Uptrack: No More Rebooting?

Do you dread kernel updates because they mean having to reboot the system? Not any more, at least for those willing to subscribe to a new service from Ksplice .

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Ksplice Uptrack: No More Rebooting?