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Red Hat's desktop software unit has revealed it's shelved plans to launch desktop Linux for the consumer market.
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.
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Red Hat has released new beta versions of its enterprise and desktop Linux products, with improvements including better virtualisation and clustering features, to make the operating system a more stable platform for server farms.
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Small to midsize companies looking for a jack-of-all-trades server need only look at the Pogo Linux 1U rack-mount server. Columnist Jack Wallen, Jr. looks under the hood of this beast and finds that it offers plenty of room to grow.
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Microsoft chief executive discusses the software giant's recent concessions regarding open source software.
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Red Hat has released a new version of its Linux operating system with features aimed to appeal to both the personal computing and server markets.
Production-quality XenSource virtualisation is the main selling point here, with optional clustering and storage virtualisation to go with it. But there's a lot more besides, making the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux a compelling solution for businesses of all sizes.
Red Hat and Sun Microsystems are gearing up to sell Linux for desktop computers, the companies' chief executives said Tuesday.
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