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Linux professionals are giving Red Hat the raspberry following its decision to drop support of all but its Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition line. Consultant Chris Ridley sums up their feelings thusly... More...

Users and analysts alike responded positively today as Red Hat Inc. delivered the fruits of its JBoss acquisition with an announcement that the Red Hat Application Stack subscription is now available.

The stack combines the Red... More...

A holiday gift arrived early at Red Hat Wednesday when the company announced that its financial results for the quarter had surpassed analysts' expectations.

According to the Raleigh, N.C.-based commercial... More...

In an apparent competitive swipe at Red Hat Inc., Oracle Corp.announced on Wednesday, March 26, at InfoWorld's Open Source Business Conference that it would add Clusterware to its year-old Oracle Unbreakable Linux... More...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Fighting the SCO Group's ire with fire, Red Hat Inc. has pledged $1 million to a new open-source protection fund and filed a formal complaint.

In a news conference at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Red Hat vowed to... More...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 may not be replacing Advanced Server 2.1 installations in record numbers, but it has reached a landmark certification status that no other Linux... More...
Red Hat Inc. sent users a warning today about a fake e-mail that asked users to install a patch for a vulnerability in fileutils (ls and mkidir). The patch was actually a file that... More...
the copyrights governing its code base because of the open nature of its projects.

Red Hat champions a new public forum for software companies

Red Hat Inc. has created a new way for the software industry to contribute real-time, official statements on... More...

Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) may be growing faster than Novell's SUSE equivalent. But you can't prove it by Alfresco Software Inc.'s latest member survey.

This week, Alfresco, a... More...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) will bring a beefed up Directory Server that will also tackle identity management issues, according to Mike Ferris, director of security... More...
SearchEnterpriseLinux.com sat down with Iams to discuss the recently released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL 4). In this interview, Iams talks about some of the new features of RHEL 4 and explains the direction the operating system will take in the future.

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two Oracle 9i Real Application Cluster (RAC) nodes on IBM xSeries servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. For eight months prior to going live, the company had been building and testing the Linux system in preparation for moving out its old Solaris and... More...

Server virtualization and cost reduction are Red Hat customers' top wants today, says Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens. His team plans to deliver both by delivering commoditized virtualization in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0... More...

they have much more competition there," Iams said.

The competition is market leader Red Hat, which, according to Iams, has been making steady inroads into ground held by NetWare. The most recent NetWare loss for Novell came this week as Red Hat signed a deal with... More...

the Java source code hasn't been made available to the masses is beyond Tim Yeaton, Red Hat's senior vice president of enterprise applications.

The community model is proven. And to see the results, a user, pundit, analyst or otherwise would have to look no... More...

of doing things quickly.

Linux got a push forward by the U.S. government this week when Red Hat, IBM and Trusted Computer Solutions Inc. (TCS), jointly announced a partnership to improve security for the Linux operating system.

The partnership entails a Common... More...

One of the many features Red Hat Inc. is pushing to the forefront of its impending Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) release is better integration with Security-Enhanced Linux, or SELinux, an... More...

that runs on all the major desktop operating systems -- Microsoft Windows, Apple, and Red Hat and Novell Linux distributions.

IBM Open Client includes: Lotus Notes, IBM's email and collaboration software Lotus Sametime, a collaboration platform featuring... More...

VMware, Red Hat and other vendors would have you think the future of operating system distribution lies within a virtual appliance, but reality isn't as cut and dried as they'd have you... More...
detection system is often used in conjunction with Linux.
What is it?

7. In January, Red Hat put out a warning about a vulnerability to this kind of attack in Apache servers, in which the attacker sends more data than can be held in the temporary storage area.
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we'd make it work." To do so, Acuity Brands worked closely with Oracle, Dell Inc.. and Red Hat Inc. Oracle ported its code to Linux, and Acuity spent about six months to get the systems stable on Linux. "Generally, we were having problems with memory," recalled Draughn... More...
but there are a host of best practices to simplify the maze. Recently, Steve Grubb of Red Hat Inc. outlined some important security principles, including minimizing admin access, the increasing sophistication of SELinux and the importance of auditing... More...
involved in developing these controls for seven or eight years and has worked with Red Hat Inc., which "pioneered" efforts to integrate SELinux into Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, Shankar said. Ubuntu and Gentoo supporters are also in the process of... More...

Bancilhon: We are a full application provider rather than just a box spender. Red Hat says to a customer, 'This is my box that you deploy on and then it's not my problem.' We understand … that you need customer applications. We are able to work with you all... More...

SUSE White Papers
7 Things Every System Administrator Should Know about OpenSSH by Global Knowledge
is installed by default on most modern BSD and Linux-based operating systems, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora. OpenSSH is an open-source implementation of the SSH (Secure SHell) protocols, originally developed in 1995 by Tatu Ylonen. SSH-based tools...
IBM® Lotus® Domino® Server Performance on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5 by Red Hat
of Lotus Domino Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for simulated workloads. This paper gives a brief introduction to the Lotus Domino performance benchmarking concepts and methodology. It will also outline the detailed procedures for running the Server Load Utility...
Root Access Risk Control: Closing Compliance Gaps by Symark International, Inc.
with provable control. Compliance efforts and security concerns have driven businesses to make substantial investments in threat control. Too often, however, these efforts pay far too little heed to the risks posed by poorly controlled access to administrative privilege in IT...
Linux Security Corner
Closing the Gaps in Root Access Control by Symark International, Inc.
at the heart of many of IT's most critical systems and meet the challenges presented by security and compliance standards. This presentation transcript offers advice on how to deal with external and internal security threats, how to meet compliance standards...
CSS Boosts Worker Productivity, Slashes Costs by Running Lotus Notes and Domino On Red Hat Enterprise Linux by Red Hat
operations management services, Cybernet-SlashSupport (CSS), migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux® from Microsoft Windows and dramatically improved application performance and improved productivity while freeing up IT resources. As a leading global...
Case Study: Accelerating Success for TIBCO Software by Intel Corporation
the speed of the Intel Xeon processors," says St. Onge. "We're also seeing better performance from the Linux operating system."