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Submission + - Red Hat to Enter the Desktop Market

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head_dunce

on Friday August 03, 2007 @11:18AM

head_dunce writes: "It looks like Red Hat is going to release their Global Desktop Linux in September and give Ubuntu a challenge for the Linux desktop market. I'm a little confused by the article though, it claims Red Hat Global Desktop "would be sold with a one-year subscription to security updates." Shouldn't the security updates be open, and the customer support be subscription based?"

Submission + - Dell to offer more Linux PCs

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head_dunce

on Thursday July 26, 2007 @05:07PM

head_dunce writes: "According to this article, Mark Shuttleworth from the Ubuntu camp says Dell is seeing a demand for the Linux based PC and, "There are additional offerings in the pipeline."

I'm starting to see flashbacks of the days when Microsoft partnered up with IBM to gain control of the desktop market. Will other Linux flavors find there way to the likes of Lenovo or HP, etc, or will Ubuntu claim the desktop market working with other PC manufacturers?"

Submission + - Red Hat Beats Estimates

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head_dunce

on Wednesday June 27, 2007 @06:26PM

head_dunce writes: "After these last few months of Microsoft, Novell, and Oracle unleashing some serious business battles against Red Hat, the question has been if Red Hat could survive. Today Red Hat announced profits were up 17% year-over-year which may finally answer the question: Linux is ready.

It was really interesting to watch an open source company fend off big money in these last few months. I think one of the most unique strategies I saw was the Red Hat Challenge which a good friend of mine participated in. Overall, Matthew Szulik posed the question to 344 teams of grad students across the world: "What do we do now?!?!" (Not in those exact words, but you get the idea.) Almost as if the open source idea has evolved to involve more than just the open code but now also includes business strategies. Hats off to Red Hat — keep it up guys!"

Submission + - Linux-On-Mainframe Program from IBM and Red Hat

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head_dunce

on Wednesday May 09, 2007 @12:43PM

head_dunce writes: "IBM and Red Hat just announced an initiative to encourage growth of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z mainframes. The first joint solution is a security-enhanced operating environment that gives government customers the highest assurance that data is protected and that access is granted only to those with proper clearance."

Submission + - Sleeping in a flip of a switch

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head_dunce

on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @12:07PM

head_dunce writes: "The April 30th edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences talks about how the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found a way to stimulate the slow waves typical of deep sleep by sending a harmless magnetic signal through the skulls of sleeping volunteers. I can see it now, entire cities surrounded by magnets... satellites that can change the north and south poles to put the whole world to sleep — this could be a weapon of mass deprivation!"

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