Fedora 8 is meant to make it easier to create new Linux versions on the Red Hat foundation--even if it means stripping out the branding. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer Stephen Shankland ...

ZDNET's key takeaways Both Fedora and Ubuntu are great Linux distributions.Each distribution has a lot to offer various user ...

With the open-source Fedora project, Red Hat is aiming to rebuild its links to the open source community and regain that community’s input for its innovation process. The developers and users now ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

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 ...

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 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 has released Fedora 14, the latest version of the company's Linux distribution aimed at developers and desktop users. Fedora project leader Jared Smith announced the release in a post on ...

Linux distributor Red Hat has issued a statement revealing that its servers were illegally infiltrated by unknown intruders. According to the company, internal audits have confirmed that the integrity ...

Red Hat Inc. has posted the first release of a new Linux distribution it hopes will become a community-driven test bed for software that may one day make it into its commercial Red Hat Enterprise ...

Fedora, a popular open source operating system sponsored by Red Hat, has rejected MongoDB support. MongoDB recently changed its license in a defensive move against having its code monetized by cloud ...