Red Hat News and Articles

In a Fedora community vote, Fedora 16 release has been named Verne.

Red Hat today announced Sohaib Abbasi, chairman and SEO of Informatica Corporation will join its Board of Directors and Dr. Steve Albrecht, Professor of Accounting at the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University, will rejoin the Red Hat Board.

"With record bookings and billings in the fourth quarter, we are on a run rate to become the first pure-play open source company to achieve a billion dollars in revenues next fiscal year, a milestone achievement for Red Hat and the open source community," stated Jim Whitehurst, President and Chief Executive Officer of Red Hat.

Google has announced the accepted projects list for its 2011 Google Summer of Code (GSOC) Program.

Red Hat announces the fourth annual Red Hat EMEA Partner Summit will take place in Dublin, Ireland at the Convention Centre from June 5-8, 2011.

“Red Hat congratulates Justin Lewis, Fran Rogers, Taylor Rose and the entire open source community at RIT on their work to harness the power of open source in the classroom and apply it to the world around them to effect positive change,” said Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO, Red Hat.

Fedora announces the availability of Fedora 15 Alpha which includes the GNOME 3 desktop, LibreOffice and the 2.6.38 kernel.

Debian receives two out of the seven Linux New Media awards at CeBIT 2011.