Red Hat Launches Online Red Hat Magazine 111
loconet writes "Today Red Hat published the first issue of their online Red Hat magazine, formerly known as the Under the Brim newsletter. Each issue includes Editor's Blog, Red Hat Speaks (interviews with Red Hat personalities), From the Inside (News, Whitepapers, Events), Ask Shadowman, Tips & Tricks, Fedora Status Report, Contests. This month's issue features a detailed article on Fedora Core 3."
Re:Read what? (Score:2)
Insightful? (Score:2, Insightful)
Honestly though, Debian is great and DEB's are more stable technology than RPM's, but they are also a lot harder to build and that's why there are less of them. It's still easier to deal with a few dependencies in binaries than to deal with them in source form because the author of a package wouldn't take the time to make a
Also how up to date is Debian's distro? It is very stable (and I use it on certain servers), but a lot of the packages are so
Re:Insightful? (Score:2, Informative)
Anyone using debian these days is living in the past
Re:Read what? (Score:5, Insightful)
This is the company trying to turn Linux in to the most expensive operating system, not the most economical.
This is the company the launched a subscription update service for its users and in less than the duration of a one year subscription cut the legs out from it, and the subscribers who paid money for it, and abandoned the whole flagship desktop product and their loyal users.
Well they didn't exactly abandon it, rather they unloaded it on unpaid labor who do all the work for them and they just control, market, exploit and profit from it. Nice business if you can pull it off.
Me I used to go out of my way to buy Red Hat box sets just to support a company that I thought was one of the good guys. No more. Gentoo for me.
Re:Read what? (Score:5, Informative)
But all RedHat does is steal work from these poor programers just look at the end of this comment. They contribute more than any other single entity, dedicating 1/5th of their income to R&D. If anyone deserves a "free plug" certain Red Hat is one of those companys.
$ find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep "@redhat" | wc -l
677
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6
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141
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0
$
657
With the upstream glibc-20041021T0701
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4760
$
24
$
98
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4
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1339
With the upstream gcc-3.4.2-20041018
$
7995
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4
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64
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0
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2028
Do the same with
by some guy named By my_name on OSnews forum.
Re:Read what? (Score:2)
Gnome, yawn...me being a KDE user I could care less.
Your mechanism a
Re:Read what? (Score:1, Interesting)
Wrong. Red Hat gets paid, not the developers directly. And Red Hat has hired people and continued to expand on gcc, such as gcj, which could not possibly be part of a support contract.
Red Hat releases everything they develop under the GPL. So how is that BAD?
Re:Read what? (Score:2)
Obviously they are contributing to it still but so are IBM, Novell/SUSE, HP, SGI, etc. They are trying to make quarterly numbers just like all the other companies on t
Re:Read what? (Score:2)
rmap, nptl, O(1) scheduler, O(1) VM layer, drivers, tcp/ip stack, selinux, statefull linux, exec-shield, gcj, mozilla, Anaconda, RPM, kudzu, GTK2, GCC, Glibc, ext2, ext3, GFS, and soon Netscape directory.
I'll put that up against Apt-get if you want to have a contest about who is "milking" the community more. Debian or RedHat/Fedora.
Re:Read what? (Score:2)
Ingo's work is cool, don't use it but its good. Doesn't make up for Red Hat shafting their loyal customers and developers.
> selinux
I think the NSA did this originally. Not going to worship Red Hat over it.
> O(1) scheduler, O(1) VM layer, drivers, tcp/ip stack...
If Red Hat's wasn't there someone else's would be if there was a need. Sure maybe it would take longer, or be a little rougher, not really gonna adopt your apparent position Linux would be useless and hopeless were it n
Re:Read what? (Score:5, Insightful)
kudzu is hardware tool, used in knoppix to get that "works on any hardware" people were screaming when it first came out.
gcj/gcc/etc you say its probably not a good thing, have you read the changelog over the last year? Pretty incredible stuff. There is a couple things from the Article here I liked too about GCC:
GCC 4.0 has Static Single Assignment (SSA) performance improvements -- SSA's usefulness comes from how it simultaneously simplifies and improves compiler optimizations, by simplifying the properties of variables. and
The FORTIFY_SOURCE extensions add both compile-time buffer overflow detection, and very low overhead runtime overflow protection. This is an excellent development tool to help improve the quality of code out there, and a current aim is to have the -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE option to compile the entire Fedora Core 4 distribution! (Nothing shipped in Fedora Core 3 makes use of GCC4) For more information on this, refer to a posting made by Jakub Jelinek at http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-09/msg0205
I concider these good things. So have the last 5 years since cygnus merged.
I don't mean to say redhat wrote all these apps from the ground up although they did for some. Just that almost every top notch app for linux you can think of had a money player behind it like RedHat/SuSE/etc. What does this mean? Free distro's are the ones benifiting more from the $$$ guys.. The $$$ guys are the ones piling on the features we ask for, they're the ones giving us the "killer apps"
NSA, not NASA (Score:2)
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/
Re:Read what? (Score:2)
How did you get +5 insightful when you apparently didn't know it was NSA not NASA.
"gcj/gcc/etc you say its probably not a good thing"
You misunderstood though I wasn't clear. I meant to say I'm not sure its a good thing Cygnus is part of Red Hat since it gives one vendor with dubious motives more control over the some important fundamental tools.
"Just that almost every top notch app for linux you can think of had a money player behind it like RedHat/SuSE/etc."
All depends on
Re:Read what? (Score:1)
Re:Read what? (Score:2)
"This is the company trying to turn Linux in to the most expensive operating system, not the most economical."
To expand on this more you know there is a problem with Red Hat when Microsoft and SUN can point to them and say Linux is the more expensive option and actually have a plausible arguement when they say it. They are giving a Linux a bad name on the value proposition front and that was its biggest asset and the thing thats fueled its growth.
I know there are big companies that need all the support a
Re:Read what? (Score:2)
Re:Read what? (Score:2)
I'll say this again. I was a loyal Red Hat buyer back to 5.x. I went out of my way to buy box sets up to 8.0 just to give them money to put in to Linux. I bought a subscription for the update service as soon as they came out with it. I used to love them. No more.
The day they stick a knife in their flagship product and all the loyal users and developers who got them where they are they stopped being worthy of your hero worship.
The fact that they were once the best
Re:Read what? (Score:1)
Re:Read what? (Score:1)
STFU Fanboy.
Fedora is the unstable devel version. At one time, the affordable version of Red Hat didn't amount to paying to beta test.
LK
Grow up (Score:2)
a little heavy (Score:2, Funny)
Or was it just me, but that site did not play nicely. Maybe it was the useless flash, or the adblocker extension fooling around, but scrolling up or down the page really bogged down mozilla. Maybe the site is also designed as a stress test for your box?
Re:a little heavy (Score:2)
Re:a little heavy (Score:1)
Re:Read what? (Score:5, Insightful)
if you RTFA:
The downloads for the Fedora Core 3 release have been stunning -- the torrent at Duke sustained over 16,000 image downloads, exchanging about 37TB in just two days!
Apparently one or two people like the project but don't let that get in the way of someone on Slashdot telling you RH is dead, please by all means ignore the fact they're the #1 distro in India, just opened an office in China which is now their main focus. They have office in Munich and landed some very big contracts there. Are currently the #1 installed distro in the world by a landslide according to netcraft. If you guys read that Mag and put down the zealot sword for a second you might see why everyone uses redhat/fedora, It's kicking the crap out of the competition.
Re:Read what? (Score:1)
Their overall market share is way down
Down
To save time the time of the Gentoo folks... (Score:2)
Re:To save time the time of the Gentoo folks... (Score:1)
Re:To save time the time of the Gentoo folks... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:To save time the time of the Gentoo folks... (Score:2)
Re:Read what? (Score:5, Insightful)
Regards,
Steve
Fedora Core 3 is better than any of your distro's anyway
Re:Read what? (Score:1, Insightful)
regardless of my choice I will support both distributions and tell others of them simply to get the ball out of MS's court
I just love a fair and ballenced view. Guess what Red Hat isn't Jesus Christ and MS isn't the devil, they
Re:Read what? (Score:1)
Hey, what about us Slackware freaks? Ooooowwww...
Re:Read what? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Read what? (Score:1, Funny)
Grrr... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Grrr... (Score:2, Informative)
1. Hold down shift
2. Hover the link, and press Ctrl+C
3. (Still with shift held) Press Ctrl+V+T
You can do it pretty fast once mastered
Re:Grrr... (Score:1)
Re:Grrr... (Score:2)
And um, what OS, I'm just curious.
Re:Grrr... (Score:2)
Ah, thanks for the heads up. That page was loading slow anyway. Since I don't read Flash, it's good to know that I can just close the tab and move on to other business.
Decoder ring (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Decoder ring (Score:1)
Reads better with rose-coloured glasses.
Re:Decoder ring (Score:2)
Yes, but you have to install it from CD
Is this... (Score:3, Insightful)
Public relationships will give confidense. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Public relationships will give confidense. (Score:2, Insightful)
I hear you, but without useful little pluses, like we got in DEC User magazines, of hand-coloured Zork maps, you probably won't find one anywhere near an actual techie.
S
Missed opportunities (Score:5, Funny)
Kids these days....
Re:Missed opportunities (Score:2)
Overheard at Red Hat Marketing... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Overheard at Red Hat Marketing... (Score:1)
Regards,
Steve
Scintillating articles they have there... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Really really dumb question... (Score:2, Informative)
FreshRPMS [freshrpms.net]
Dag [freshrpms.net]
Livna [livna.org]
Fedora.us [fedora.us]
Some repositories play nicer with each other then others, i.e. Livna is maintained to be compatible with the Fedora.us repo. Dag has a huge selection of applications, as does FreshRPMS. You should re
Re:Really really dumb question... (Score:2)
Those interested in Enterprise Linux can just use CentOS 3.1 (includes yum).
Those who installed RH Enterprise ISOs somewhere and are now stuck with no updates (or have to get them by compiling SPRMS) can switch from RH EL 3.0 to CentOS by installing CentOS 3.1's Yum RPM.
http://www.centos.org/
Re:KDE Screen shots (Score:2, Informative)
For Gnome:Open a terminal window and run the command gconf-editor. When the GConf editor window appears, open the apps folder, then the metacity folder and finally click on the general folder. Find the variable called reduced_resources and click the check box next to it.
For KDE:Open a terminal window and run the command kcontrol. When the KDE Control Center window appears, click the "+" symbol next to the Desktop menu item to expand it. Then click the Window behavior menu item. Under
Wide Open? (Score:2)
I wonder if this is taking its place and they decided to act like Wide Open never happened. (the jokes are too obvious - please don't even bother)
What's up with that font? (Score:1)
About time... (Score:1)
Better Living Through RPM, Part 1 (Score:2)
name o' the department (Score:1)
Novice or new users, though not dumbed down (Score:4, Interesting)
You won't appreciate much in this magazine if you are not curious about software, are a die hard Debian fan, or simply know quite a bit about Red Hat or Fedora Linux already.
I've bookmarked it, will review it regularly, and will consider passing along articles or the URL to friends and associates as it is appropriate.
Name change? (Score:1)
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nope (Score:1, Informative)
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (June 2004) [netcraft.com]
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."