Archive for May, 2008

Where’s Red Hat This June?

by Events Team

North America

The fourth-annual Red Hat Summit will take place June 18-20 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Mass. The event will feature keynote speeches from Red Hat President and CEO, Jim Whitehurst; Red Hat CTO, Brian Stevens; Co-Creator of The Simpsons, Joel Cohen; General Manager, IBM Enterprise System Division, Jim Stallings; and CIO, Harvard Medical School, John Halamka. Attendees can choose from eight tracks and select paths that provide a guide to sessions that best fit their organization’s needs. Come to the Summit to meet Red Hat, our partners, our customers and members of the open source community.

The Fedora User Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) will be held in parallel with the Red Hat Summit in Boston. FUDCon will feature everything from hackfests – where contributors get together to brainstorm, design, prototype and improve free and open source software – to conference sessions. FUDCon is truly a community event where everyone from new users to Linux luminaries meet, mingle and work on new features.
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Filed under Summit, Events on May 30th, 2008 | Comments Off

Ride the Wave with Fedora 9

by Fedora Team

A little more than two weeks after the release of Fedora 9 and we’re certainly making waves with strong download numbers. At almost exactly the one-week mark, Fedora 9 saw about 15 percent more downloads than Fedora 8 received during its first week. While this is an impressive number, Fedora is continuing to experience growth in other areas too.

Every statistic showing our community’s size and involvement is rising steadily, and we continue to gather these statistics using open, transparent methods. We are seeing enormous success in growing a community of not just open source consumers, but open source contributors. Since the debut of our new Fedora Account System, the number of account holders has increased dramatically, and well over 75 percent of our contributors are non-Red Hat employees. We’re also happy to report that the number of volunteer representatives in our global Ambassadors program has risen to over 350 members. During the coming months, we’ll be placing high emphasis on expanding Fedora’s reach in Europe with former Fedora Project Leader Max Spevack moving to the Netherlands to manage our community efforts. His counterpart in the Asia-Pacific region is Harish Pillay, a Red Hat associate based in Singapore.
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Filed under Fedora on May 28th, 2008 | Comments Off

JBoss.org Launches Seam 2.0.2.GA

by JBoss Team

JBoss.org recently announced the release of Seam 2.0.2.GA, the latest generation of the JBoss Seam 2 project. The first iteration of Seam 2 launched in November 2007, and has seen over 70,000 downloads since then. You can download the newest release here.

Seam is an application framework used to build next-generation Web 2.0 applications and is designed to eliminate complexity. Seam is the open source community project, based at JBoss.org. It feeds the JBoss Seam Framework, a fully integrated and supported component of the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
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Filed under JBoss on May 27th, 2008 | Comments Off

Security, Open Source Style

by Security Team

Today we’re excited to announce another community initiative — the Open Source Software Security community (oss-security). This project is an ongoing effort to manage security information in open source software by building on the collaborative foundation of the open source model.

The purpose of oss-security is to encourage public discussion of security flaws, concepts and practices in the open source community. We don’t want to simply be an information clearinghouse, or to replace any of the current security lists and groups. The goal is to fill an existing vacuum by encouraging active participation of those interested in the ideas and unique challenges in securing open source software. This includes activities such as flaw discovery, understanding, reporting and overall best practices.
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Filed under Security, Open Source on May 27th, 2008 | Comments Off

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2

by RHEL5 Team

Today we released the second update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. As with earlier minor releases, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 comes with a broad set of bug fixes, updated hardware support capabilities, quality improvements, and a set of new software features that have been backported from upstream open source projects to the Enterprise Linux 5 code base.

Of course, we don’t normally make a big deal about the release of a minor version, but for this update we’ve decided to go wild and issue a pair of blogs. In this one we will talk about the new features and capabilities on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2. In the other we will highlight something that we are proud of and applies to all Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases, our software maintenance and lifecycle policies.

Enterprise Linux 5.2 Highlights

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 enhancements we are releasing are primarily focused in six areas:

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Filed under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on May 21st, 2008 | Comments Off

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Lifecycle

by RHEL5 Team

This is one of two Red Hat Enterprise Linux-related blogs released today. It highlights something that we are proud of and applies to all Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases, our software maintenance and lifecycle policies. The other blog covers the new capabilities provided by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2.

We have done a lot of work to make sure that minor releases, such as 5.2, deliver subscription value to customers. We try to strike a balance between adding improvements, which enhance customers’ ability to get more value from their IT assets, but not adding so much that it causes them to have to recertify their entire software stack. And we make it easy for customers to apply these updates by using Red Hat Network.
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Filed under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on May 21st, 2008 | Comments Off

Red Hat Releases Para-Virtualized Drivers for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

by RHEL5 Team

Today we released a set of para-virtualized (PV) drivers for use with fully-virtualized (FV) Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests running on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 (or later) host.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 introduced native virtualization support when it was released in March 2007. This provided PV guest support for Enterprise Linux 5 guests, offering one of the lowest possible virtualization overheads for applications. PV guest support was subsequently extended to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 guests with the 4.5 minor release. Additionally, support for FV guests, which offers the ability to run the same kernel as a non-virtualized system, albeit at lower performance, was also provided.

In performance tests it was clear that PV guests running CPU-centric workloads have less than 5 percent virtualization overhead, while even the most demanding I/O intensive tasks, such as webserving and high performance database I/O loads, perform within 85 percent of bare-metal performance.
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Filed under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Virtualization on May 20th, 2008 | Comments Off

A New Goal for Open Source

by Fedora Team

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The attacking left forward fakes his body to the left as he gracefully slides to the right around his opponent. Dribbling carefully into position, he sizes up the Australian goalie, who, he recalls, tends to play a little aggressively to one side, especially in that last match against Italy. An opposing fullback closes in and the forward ducks the move, falling back slightly and eyeing the goalie’s stance. Finally he sees his chance as the goalie shifts his weight – the forward takes the shot – he scores! The world championship is won by the challengers! The crowd goes wild…the photographers’ bulbs flash…and the forward returns to the locker room, to find an electrical outlet into which he can plug himself to recharge his power cells.

Are you intrigued and thinking: “What?!? A team of robots playing soccer…and beating a team of humans no less?â€
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Filed under Fedora on May 20th, 2008 | Comments Off

Mr. HISTalk Interviews Dave Nesvisky, VP, Healthcare, Red Hat

by Healthcare Team

Mr. HISTalk was gracious enough to recently spend some time interviewing Dave Nesvisky about Red Hat and healthcare. Dave talks in detail about the growing adoption we’ve seen of open source solutions in the healthcare industry, as well as how we’ve seen success with more than just Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Dave and the rest of us have been keeping busy with all this interest in Red Hat’s presence in the industry, for more information, see here.

Filed under Healthcare on May 19th, 2008 | Comments Off

EDB Implements Red Hat Solutions for the Reliability of In-House Mainframe Computing

by Editor

See the full press release: http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2008/edb.html.

Filed under Press Release on May 14th, 2008 | Comments Off