Red Hat

Source: www.linux-foundation.org

I’ve written on Red Hat before and the confidence I feel in their operational strengths. It is one of the best run companies I’ve seen. Red Hat’s leadership in the Linux space and its steadfast belief in open source software has been a key factor in Linux adoption in the enterprise. This year’s numbers with Linux capturing greater than 20% of server shipments, a major success, are due in large part to Red Hat’s competitiveness and hard work.

Source: http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/blog-entry/unexpected-surprises-linux-fans

It was one of those weeks when the surprise gifts just kept on coming, so I think we can count it as a positive for Linux.

First up, and most exciting to me, was the arrival of KDE 4.2. KDE 4.2 really lives up to the potential of the KDE 4 series, and the KDE team deserves a big congrats for getting this release out the door.

It's been discouraging to note that there are still a lot of detractors for the 4.0 line--people are still ticked off about the "unfinished" nature of 4.0 itself, and tend to not trust anything labeled KDE 4. But when 4.0 was released, the KDE team warned everybody that this would be a transition release with a lot of work to do. Apparently, judging from the vitriol that came out at the time, people didn't get that memo.

Question:

I'm trying to run Redhat style service commands such as:

service httpd stop

As I understand there is a app I can install that will do something like this in Ubuntu, but I lost my notes. Does anyone know what the app is called?

Source: http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62046073,00.htm?scid=r...

Asia is in the middle of a mass adoption wave of open source technology, and the floodgates of innovation will open following this wave in two to three years, according to open source vendors.

Following recent remarks made by MySQL co-founder, David Axmark, on Asia's lack of contribution back to the open source community, fellow industry spokespeople were decidedly more optimistic about the region's role to play in the open source ecosystem.

Sep 11, 2008

Source: http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/64395.html?wlc=1220755936

Linux vendor Red Hat is angling for a way to tap into Microsoft's massive customer base, and it's looking to virtualization technology to do the job. With the purchase of Qumranet, Red Hat gains the ability to blend its products with Windows applications.

Software developer Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) bought an Israeli company in a bid to gain a competitive edge against Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and smaller rivals that provide computing services for complex networks.