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    Red Hat partnered with Macquarie Corporate Telecommunications on Tuesday to provide Australian enterprises with the first fully managed Linux hosting solution.

  • Red Hat and Suse boosted by EU education

    The French Education Ministry is deploying thousands of Red Hat Linux-based servers while Germany is moving 40 percent of its university students to Suse Linux.

  • JBoss fills out 'stack' with integration

    JBoss is set to update its Java software suite with an integration server, an important component in its services-oriented architecture strategy.

  • Linux guru argues against security liability

    Alan Cox, one of the leading Linux kernel developers, has told a House of Lords hearing that neither open- nor closed-source developers should be liable for the security of the code they write.

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    One of a growing cadre of open-source companies, Zimbra will add joint document creation and sharing to its messaging and collaboration software at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco.

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  • Red Hat unveils storage software

    Linux company Red Hat has begun selling new software for creating a communal storage system that spans many devices in a network -- part of its effort to expand beyond its core operating system business.

  • Interview: Red Hat's new CEO

    Red Hat's new chief executive officer, Jim Whitehurst, talks about the Linux maker in an extensive interview with ZDNet Australia sister site CNet News.

  • Microsoft opens up: Everything you need to know

    The software company has made a big show about opening up its APIs, but has it really changed its stance towards open source?

  • Getting to know GNOME

    Linux has come a long way from the early, oft-crashing days. GNOME is now one of the primary desktops for the Linux operating system; not only is it highly customisable, but it is amazingly stable. We examine why Linux -- running GNOME -- is a viable desktop alternative.

  • SCO raps Red Hat, sets license prices

    SCO Group fired back at Linux leader Red Hat and revealed steep licensing prices for Linux users who want to steer clear of the company's legal wrangle with the open-source operating system.

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  • Red Hat and Ericsson -- A powerful duo

    Ericsson and Red Hat have unveiled a strategic initiative to develop a broad range of technologies, products, and services for home communications. The first tangible result: the Ericsson Cordless Screen Phone.

  • Web leak of Linux lets Hat out of the bag

    Parts of the newest version of Red Hat's Linux software slipped onto the Internet Wednesday, nearly a week before the operating system's official release date, giving glimpses of a product with a new focus on mainstream computer users.

  • UnitedLinux: the key to Australian take-up?

    Four Linux companies have joined forces to develop a common core version of the OS for businesses, but a local analyst doubts a unified approach is enough to encourage take-up by Australian businesses.

  • SuSE plans 2003 Linux desktop push

    SuSE plans to announce in January an effort to bring the open-source Linux operating system to desktop computers, an attack on Microsoft that will be bolder than similar initiatives from Red Hat and Sun Microsystems.

  • OLPC XO

    The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is unique as the XO laptop it distributes. While the XO is not commercially available, our review provides an insight into what can be achieved in a laptop designed for children at a very low cost.

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