Red Hat’s ecosystem of certified applications is by far the largest in the open-source market, and its size creates a powerful halo effect, attracting new ISVs that are looking to support Linux.

But Paul Cormier, executive vice president of engineering for Red Hat, said RHEL 5 lets customers load only the OS features they choose. “We have built in a very modular fashion.

The broad strokes of Red Hat's announcement yesterday left a lot of canvas unpainted. Most interesting for me, in the near term, was the Red Hat Appliance Operating System and support for Amazon EC2.

Red Hat is the No. 1 Linux OS. Ergo, it is quite the big deal for corporate users that Microsoft and Red Hat have said they will make Red Hat's version of the Linux operating system natively ...

Red Hat, which IBM acquired for $34 billion in 2018, is already well known for its enterprise-grade Linux distribution, which will serve as the basis of its new platform for road vehicles.

Red Hat acquired CentOS in 2014 Although CentOS was and is a wildly popular distribution—for a couple of years, it was the most commonly used Web server distro in the world—it suffered its ...

Red Hat is being acquired by IBM for a gargantuan $34 billion, but the community-developed Fedora Linux project continues undeterred. This week Fedora 29 is rolling out to the masses across all ...

The underpinnings of Chrome OS have found their way into the server room in a very roundabout way. Red Hat has acquired CoreOS, the creators of an operating system for containerized apps ...

I'm looking to share files between my red hat 9 computer and a os x (10.3.2) equipped G4 tower. I've been reading about samba and nfs, but I'm a bit confused now. samba seems to be just for ...

The launch of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system again raises the question of whether a robust and feature-laden operating system is really needed for some computing situations.

Red Hat Inc. will make a Linux operating system for embedded devices through a partnership with Wind River Systems Inc., which specializes in software for this type of device, the companies ...

The two will develop an open-source OS that can tap into high speed wireless networks. It will be based on Red Hat's eCos operating system which is designed for smaller devices. Written by Stephen ...