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Fedora 12 beta code is go

Red Hat has announced the first and only beta of its next Linux development release, Fedora 12. Emperor Constantine the Great knew a good means to hold a crumbling empire together when he saw it - namely, Christianity - and by code-naming the 12th ...

From TIMOTHY PRICKETT MORGAN, LXer,  21 Oct 2009

Canonical pushes out Ubuntu 9.10 server

If you are getting ready to build your own internal cloud-style virtual infrastructure, Canonical - the commercial entity behind the Ubuntu distro of Linux - really wants you to think outside of the box and consider the forthcoming "Karmic Koala" ...

From TIMOTHY PRICKETT MORGAN, LXer,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Mark Shuttleworth

Sun adds Oracle Linux to ops tools

Sun Microsystems’ xVM server virtualization hypervisor has not yet seen the light of day as a commercial product, but the company is continuing to enhance the management tool. Now, the latest version of Ops Center has arrived featuring enhancements for ...

From TIMOTHY PRICKETT MORGAN, LXer,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Oracle,  Sun Microsystems, Inc.,  Red Hat, Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation

HP-UX gets biannual face-lift

Hewlett-Packard is rolling out Update 5 for the HP-UX Unix operating system that runs its Itanium and PA-RISC lines of Integrity and HP 9000 servers, keeping to its pattern of two updates per year for its flagship operating system. As has been the case ...

From TIMOTHY PRICKETT MORGAN, LXer,  29 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Brian Cox,  Hewlett-Packard,  IBM,  Sun Microsystems, Inc.,  Symantec

Sun's Sparc server roadmap revealed

Exclusive For those of us on the outside of Sun Microsystems, the future of the Sparc processor and its related server platforms has been the subject of much speculation and debate. But for Sun's largest customers, the mystery has been over since ...

From TIMOTHY PRICKETT MORGAN, LXer,  12 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Sun Microsystems, Inc.,  Oracle,  IBM,  Hewlett-Packard,  Hitachi, Ltd.

Red Hat pumps out commercial KVM

Commercial Linux distributor Red Hat is hosting its annual summit in Chicago this week, and the star of the event was today's launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, which sports the first commercially supported KVM hypervisor from the company. In this ...

From TIMOTHY PRICKETT MORGAN, LXer,  3 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Red Hat, Inc.,  Novell, Inc.,  Sun Microsystems, Inc.,  Oracle

IDC: Linux support sales to break $1bn in 2012

So you think companies sell $1bn in Linux support contracts a year worldwide? Think again. That isn't going to happen until 2012, and maybe not at all if the trends of using commercial distros without paying for support continue apace. Al Gillen, the ...

From TIMOTHY PRICKETT MORGAN, LXer,  20 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Novell, Inc.,  Red Hat, Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation

Linux: More contributors, more code

The Linux Foundation, which is something akin to the marketing arm of the open source operating system kernel and its related systems software, has today released its second report detailing how the Linux 2.6 kernel is evolving. The report reveals how ...

From TIMOTHY PRICKETT MORGAN, LXer,  20 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Linus Torvalds,  Novell, Inc.

Citrix: Novell's only option for virtualization marriage

What is commercial Linux distributor Novell going to do about server and desktop virtualization? It's a good question, and one that the company's top brass has not really addressed. In July 2006, with the launch of SUSE Linux 10, Novell was the first ...

From TIMOTHY PRICKETT MORGAN, LXer,  19 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Novell, Inc.,  Red Hat, Inc.,  Oracle,  Citrix Systems, Inc.,  Paul Maritz

Red Hat steps up channel reach against Novell and Microsoft

It takes money to make money, and commercial Linux distributor Red Hat knows this. Red Hat has made no secret of the fact that it wants to get more of its sales through indirect channels. This is not just a matter of shifting the burden of sales to ...

From TIMOTHY PRICKETT MORGAN, LXer,  18 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Red Hat, Inc.,  Novell, Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation

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