If nothing else, Red Hat has been extremely busy over the past year. Whether or not all of the activity will be good for Linux remains in question. Starting with Red Hat’s embrace of CentOS, I’m of ...

The Fedora Modular Server project experiments with a new way to deliver multiple versions of packages side-by-side, each with their own development life cycles Red Hat’s ongoing experiments with ...

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The number of Web servers running Red Hat's free operating system Fedora has more than doubled over the last six months as the market share of the company's paid operating system steadily declines, ...

Red Hat confirmed Friday that hackers compromised infrastructure servers belonging to the company and the Fedora Project, including systems used to sign Fedora packages. In the Fedora breach, company ...

As part of the transition, the Fedora open source project will transfer development work and copyright ownership of contributed code to the foundation but Red Hat will continue to provide substantial ...

Eric Raymond, a key figure behind the Red Hat Linux distribution, has sparked a storm of controversy by shifting his allegiance to the rival open source platform Ubuntu. The influential developer and ...

After a brief delay, while last-minute bugs were fixed, Fedora 31 has just rolled out the door, and besides being a worthy Linux distribution in its own right, it's even more interesting for what it ...

Due out this month, Fedora Core 5 will incorporate a more polished Xen hypervisor and support for Intel's Virtualization Technology (VT) and AMD's Pacifica virtualization extensions. Red Hat also said ...