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InternetNews: It looks like current Fedora Project Leader Jared Smith will not be overseeing the Beefy Miracle Fedora 17 release.
darthcamaro writes "Red Hat is changing the leadership at the Fedora Project. Jared Smith is out after having been the Fedora Project Leader since June of 2010. In is Robyn Bergeron — who will be the first female leader of the open source project's history. Bergeron is well known in the community as she has most recently been the Fedora Program Manager." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
LinuxDevices: "Red Hat has extended the life cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6 from seven to 10 years."
ServerWatch: The MRG platform is different from Red Hat's Enterprise Linux in that it can adopt new kernels faster.
ServerWatch: Now instead of 7 years of standard support and extra 3 yrs of bug fixes (10 total) for RHEL, Red Hat is now moving to 10 yrs of standard support for RHEL 5 and 6.
ars technica: "Color management has historically been a weak area for the Linux desktop, but the situation is rapidly improving."
ReadWriteWeb: Word is that Red Hat refused to sign on to OpenStack when it was announced, because it didn't like the governance model.
InfoStor:Red Hat wants to return the Gluster filesystem to its open source roots.
LinuxPlanet: There are any number of different key use cases for Linux. One of the fastest growing areas is virtualization, and it's one where Linux leader Red Hat is now out with a new release.
ServerWatch: One part of the RHEV platform is the RHEV-M management system for servers, which has been a Windows-only solution.
Groklaw: If you were a patent holder contemplating suing a bunch of companies for patent infringement, what's the first thing you would want to know?
ITworld: Red Hat is hiring
The Motley Fool: "You'd think the company missed analyst targets, management guidance, and the inside of a barn with a shotgun, judging by the market reaction."
The Street: CEO Jim Whitehurst said the company has been so successful in open source software because of its vast army of engineers and because it places support behind its releases.
InternetNews: From the 'Rapid Releases Aren't Good For Everyone' files..
Linux Planet: If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, than Red Hat should be flattered by Oracle Linux.
ServerWatch: Growth is coming from multiple areas of the company and thanks in no small part to a large number of big deals.
ServerWatch: Just because Linux vendor Red Hat has a newer platform release out, doesn't mean it's leaving its older customers behind
ServerWatch: According to Red Hat, there is a misconception in the marketplace that middleware can be difficult to use for content creation.
Triangle Business Journal: Other than the utility companies themselves, no corporation has as big a stake in the delay of the Duke Energy Progress Energy merger than Raleigh-based Red Hat.
InternetNews: From the 'Twist my ARM' files...
Red Hat has announced that the beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 is now available for testing: "Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of the beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8. This beta release includes a broad set of updates to the....
LinuxPlanet: This past week, Red Hat updated its flagship enterprise Linux and put out the debut release of a new storage platform.
InfoStor: The new appliance integrates components from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with Gluster.
ZDnet: Red Hat thinks that big data management and Linux can go together like peanut-butter and jelly with its release of Red Hat Storage Software Appliance.
ServerWatch: The RHEL 6.2 release provides improved resource management, virtualization and storage capabilities.
Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, an updated version of the world's most widely deployed enterprise Linux distribution: "Today Red Hat announces the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, which delivers to customers a second wave of feature enhancements and....
ZDnet UK:: I've had excellent luck with Red Hat, I like the tools that Red Hat develops and places in their distributions, and there is a huge support community for it.
itwbennett writes "Last month two Red Hat developers proposed to replace the 30-year-old syslog system with a new Journal daemon. Initial reaction was mostly negative and 'focused on the Journal's use of a binary key-value form of data to log system events,' says blogger Brian Proffit. But now, says Proffitt, it seems that the proposal to replace syslog has less to do with the fixing syslog's problems than with Red Hat's desire to go its own way with Linux infrastructure." Read more of this story at Slashdot.