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- CRIKEY! He can swallow whole companies! But not communities.
- Boy, what a big beautiful snake he is, mates. He eats multi-billion dollar companies with all their assets, WHOLE. But even big old  Constrictus Siliconvallis cannot squeeze the Open Source community. So, suffice to say, the Sun Microsystems story didn't end the way...
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Fedora 9 ships, openSuse 11 due June 19
- Red Hat's Fedora project yesterday quietly released version 9, an upgrade of its open source Linux operating system with support for live USB bootup, OpenJDK6 , KDE 4 and the ext4 file system. Fedora 9, code-named Sulphur, was developed by more than 2,000 volunteer developers, said Paul...
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- If my kid doesn't like Linux now...
- If my kid doesn't like Linux now...So if you buy your kid a Chevyand he demands a Hummer, do you cave in?Because the XP machine was, surprisingly, rampant with malware.Just what you want, a virtual machine running tons of virtual malware, virtual spamware, spyware, and probably botted. So, if...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- Red Hat, Sun deal reflects power shift driven by open source
- Red Hat, Sun deal reflects power shift driven by open sourceCheck out Fedora 8 tomorrow"Through its pact with Red Hat and the IcedTea project, though, Sun is transitioning into a more serious open source player, observers say. Open source Java now has a serious chance. "Check it out tomorrow. IcedTea...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-07
- Red Hat, Sun deal reflects power shift driven by open source
- Three years ago, a Red Hat-Sun pact seemed as unthinkable as a Novell-Microsoft partnership -- or World Series championship for the Boston Red Sox. The BoSox were down 0-3 games against the Yankees in the American league playoffs, Red Hat was eating up its Unix...
- Blog posts 2007-11-07
- Can Red Hat ever make open source advocates happy?
- Red Hat has joined Sun's OpenJDK project, aligning its IcedTea project with it. (Should that now be IcedCoffee?) The reaction of open source bloggers to this news? Finally, wrote our own Stephen Shankland. What was the hold-up, asked EnterpriseLinux. What took you, asked Business Review Online. ...
- Blog posts 2007-11-07
- Fedora 8 due Nov 8, just weeks after opensuse 10.3, ubuntu 7.10
- Even as new versions of opensuse and Ubuntu hit the web this month, a jazzed up Fedora 8 release is being prepped for availability on November 8. Fedora 8, now in final testing, features an online desktop, a new look-and-feel called Infinity, IcedTea, an open source...
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
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