Red Hat News and Articles

In association with the Georgia Institute of Technology, Red Hat has carried out an open source index study and published it in the form of a world map.

Following the news of Oracle's purchase of Sun, we hear a lot about MySQL, OpenOffice and VirtualBox. But Btrfs vs. ZFS is yet another highlight of the takeover.

Developer Ulrich Drepper has provided a preview of the upcoming version 2.10 of the free GNU C library glibc.

After weeks' long rumor mill, the word is finally out: database specialist Oracle is buying Sun Microsystems for around $7.4 billion. This just two weeks after IBM abandoned its bid to do the same thing.

The patent war between Microsoft and TomTom may be resolved in court, but it hasn't ended. At least that's what the lawyers at the Software Freedom Law Center think, and Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation is further considering the implications.

The Fedora project has released the first beta test version of Fedora 11 after an announced delay from its original milestone.

The Linux distro CentOS, a free Red Hat clone, is now available in version 5.3 to match that of RHEL 5.3.

In August 2008, the Fedora team noticed irregularities on its server. Project leader Paul W. Frields has now released a detailed report of the break-in.