Open Source: An Open Question for Red Hat and Others, Aug 21, 2008

It's been tough lately for companies like Red Hat and Novell that bet their business on open source. Here's a look at the haves and the have-nots

NimbleX, a Slackware-based distribution, advertises itself as "the new wave of Linux." However, what is appealing in NimbleX -- its speed and small footprint and the resulting selection of alternative software choices -- will likely strike veteran GNU/Linux users as being very old school.

Sabre Holdings Corp., the $3 billion online network best known for Travelocity, has adopted Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as the corporate standard for its global ticketing and airline services businesses and will implement RHEL 5 in all future acquisitions.

What's the big deal about Linux? Isn't it at heart just a PC-based version of UNIX – the ‘70’s hit operating system which has outlived the predictions of its demise throughout the ‘90’s? If you’ve come from a Solaris or HP/UX or AIX background isn’t a PC-based UNIX a bit, well, passé?

In light of my chronic Mac problems, I decided that I would take a shot at Ubuntu running on a Thinkpad X300.

2.6.27-rc4 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.

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