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Who Contributes the Most to LibreOffice?

Posted in March 1st, 2011
by in Canonical, libreoffice, Novell, OpenOffice.org, Oracle, red hat, rss   

Cedric Bosdonnat has been tracking contributions to LibreOffice since its announced fork from OpenOffice.org. He uses Git Data Miner to gleen results from the main branch of LibreOffice Git rep…

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Spotlight on Linux: Fedora 14

Posted in November 17th, 2010
by in Fedora, linux, red hat, rss   

Fedora is the open source community driven testbed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux containing many of the technologies that will become available and commercially supported in RHEL. more>>

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What Will Happen to GNOME Now?

Posted in November 1st, 2010
by in gnome, red hat, rss, Ubuntu, unity   

Those who remember a time before Ubuntu will undoubtedly also remember that GNOME, although probably the second most popular desktop manager, didn’t hold too much share of the Linux desktop mark…

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Fedora 14 Well On Its Way to a Desktop Near You

Posted in October 7th, 2010
by in Fedora, linux, red hat, rss, scap, SPICE   

Red Hat’s Fedora remains one of the most popular and versatile Linux distributions available today. In fact, it has few equals. more>>

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Old Generals Never Die – They just Wear a Red Hat

Posted in September 7th, 2010
by in Henry Hugh Shelton, linux, Matthew Szulik, red hat, rss   

The Red Hat board of directors announced a new chairman Monday, August 30, to replace outgoing Matthew Szulik. Henry Hugh Shelton, retired Special Forces general, has been serving on the board …

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Alien – Use Any Package On Any Distribution

Posted in September 7th, 2010
by in Debian, package management, red hat, rss, slackware   

Sometimes, a utility or an application that you want to install is impossible to find in the format of your distribution. Alien is a utility that can convert one package type into another. It ca…

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The End Is In Sight For RHEL 3

Posted in May 17th, 2010
by in end-of-life, red hat, RHEL, rss   

It’s doubtful that anyone really likes having to upgrade, but at some point it has to be done. For those particularly adverse to the upgrade — like enterprise users, with good reason — there are extra-long windows, but eventually even those windows close. Last week, Red Hat announced that the oldest of its supported platforms has officially entered the homestretch. more>>


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Microsoft Patent Claims Pose No Immediate Risk for Linux Users

Posted in October 12th, 2007
by in fud, GNU/Open source, hospital hacker, intellectual property, linux, microsoft, News, patent licensing, red hat, RedHat/Fedora Linux, steve ballmer, Windows   

Recently I wrote post about Microsoft FUD and risk for Linux user, especially Redhat Linux users. I received couple of emails. One of them pointed out me Gartner research report entitled “Microsoft Patent Claims Pose No Immediate Risk for Users“:
Microsoft claims that a variety of open-source software projects violate its software patents. A general trend [...]

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