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Red Hat CEO: Go Ahead, Copy Our Software
While most companies fight copycats, Red Hat embraces its top clone, CentOS. Here's how that helps it fight real enemies like VMware. Read More »
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Reflecting On 2014, Looking Ahead To 2015
It is confirmed: 2014 has been a great year for Red Hat. Yesterday, we announced third quarter results of our fiscal year 2015 and, with that, celebrated our 51st consecutive quarter of revenue growth - more than 12 years of consecutive revenue growth...
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Remembering Dennis Ritchie, Creator of the C Programming Language and UNIX Co-Creator
Dennis M. Ritchie, co-creator of UNIX and father of the C programming language, died this past weekend after a long illness. It's no exaggeration to say that without Ritchie, modern computing would not be what it is today. Read More »
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Starting An Open Hardware Company And Building In The Open
For nearly as long as the three of us have known each other, we have talked about the things we would make when we had our own company. The seriousness of that statement grew and waned over time. But early this year, a friend who was just getting into working with the Arduino microcontroller platform built an 8-bit binary counter and an idea was born [...].
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tranSMART Foundation Releases Version 16.1 of Its Open-Source, Open-Data Translational Medicine Platform
The tranSMART Foundation, a non-profit organization providing a global, open-source, open-data knowledge management platform for scientists to share pre-competitive translational research data, today announced the release of tranSMART version 16.1. This version brings key enhancements to the quality and stability of the platform, a significantly improved scripted installation process and a library of more than 100 tranSMART-ready™ public datasets that can be loaded into the platform using simple included scripts...
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What Would You Like Policy-Makers to Know About Computing? Brian Kernighan's Solution
Computer programmers roll their eyes when they hear about anti-circumvention bans, SOPA, Pakistani disruption of the DNS to carry out censorship, and similar incursions of government officials into the domain that computer nerds claim as their own. One often hears technologists say, "If those policy-makers knew a thing or two about the Internet..." Well, renowned Unix researcher Brian W. Read More »
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Why CoreOS Is A Game-Changer In The Data Center And Cloud
Offering Linux as a service, CoreOS has become the preferred distro for Docker -- and may go a long way toward making data centers more cloudlike...
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Why the Operating System Matters Even More in 2017
Operating systems don't quite date back to the beginning of computing, but they go back far enough. Mainframe customers wrote the first ones in the late 1950s, with operating systems that we'd more clearly recognize as such today—including OS/360 from IBM and Unix from Bell Labs—following over the next couple of decades. An operating system performs a wide variety of useful functions in a system, but it's helpful to think of those as falling into three general categories. First, the operating system sits on top of a physical system and talks to the hardware. This insulates application software from many hardware implementation details...
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Fossetcon 2014
Fossetcon takes place September 11th-13th, 2014 at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in sunny Orlando, FL. Fossetcon is a 3-day event with a focus on all things regarding Free and Open Source Software. Fossetcon is not just a GNU/Linux conference or a *BSD conference. It's For ALL Things FOSS.
Fossetcon aims to provide the community with the needed resources of training, knowledge and collaborative efforts to aid our community in all of our endeavours. If you're looking to elevate your career path or even get access to free training and certifications then we are willing to provide it. Read More »
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