Today, Red Hat took a public stand challenging the standards for patenting software. In the Biliski case that is now before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, this patent issue is ripe for consideration. In a friend of the court brief submitted to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in the Bilski case today, Red Hat describes the special problems that patents pose for open source and seeks modification of the standards for patentable subject matter that take open source into account. Here is a quick summary of our …

Free and Open Source VirtualBox Desktop Virtualization Available for All Major Operating Systems
SANTA CLARA, CA February 12, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced that it has entered into a stock purchase agreement to acquire innotek, the provider of the leading edge, open source virtualization software called VirtualBox. By enabling developers to more efficiently build, test and run applications on multiple platforms, VirtualBox will extend the Sun xVM platform onto the desktop and strengthen Sun’s leadership in the virtualization market. This software is available for all major …

Computer Sciences Corporation migrates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network Satellite Server for unified management and administration across the Nordics
Raleigh NC – February 20, 2008 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Nordic operations of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), a leading global information technology (IT) services company, has standardized its mid-range Nordic Linux IT Infrastructure Outsourcing Services on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in response to an increasing demand for hosted …

Red Hat middleware platform enables development and deployment of services in service-oriented architecture, offering enhanced productivity and system reliability
Raleigh NC – February 19, 2008 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the National Institute of Design and Mint in Italy (Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, IPZS) has selected the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform to develop and implement software services in a SOA environment. With JBoss solutions, IPZS has significantly increased the productivity …

Raleigh NC – February 14, 2008 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the global availability of the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, a next-generation, enterprise-class, open source solution for organizations seeking to enhance business performance by integrating people, partners, information, applications, business services and processes in the value chain. The solution provides Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), application and business-process integration capabilities in a single, easy-to-consume enterprise distribution. The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is the first comprehensive open source SOA product offering, …

The Fedora Project has hired a new leader from the community. Having not worked at Red Hat hiring Paul Frields shows, once again, how committed Red Hat is to fostering community and Open Source.
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BYO Linux 1.0 Text Version
(c) 2000, 2001 Jonathan Thorpe
Email: jon@byolinux.org
This document/howto contains precise instructions of how to Build Your Own Linux personalized distribution. A HTML and Printer friendly HTML as well as other BYO Linux Internet content may be found at: http://www.byolinux.org
Contents:

Packages required for BYO Linux
Making space
Writing Lilo.conf
Folders and files
SysVinit install
Bash install
Compiling Statically
Glibc install
Kernel install
GCC 2.95.2 Install
A few necessities
Dynamic install
Boot scripts

1)BYO LINUX: PACKAGES
In order for you to start your own Linux OS, you will have to download the Required Packages for a basic Linux system. You will also require the …

1. ISP
Apakah erti sebuah komputer sekiranya tidak dilengkapkan dengan Internet. Pada masa kini hampir setiap komputer yang berfungsi akan disambungkan dengan Internet. Jika tidak komputer tersebut hanya akan menjadi bahan hiasan ataupun paling kurang akan menjadi tempat untuk bermain games.
Bagi pengguna akhir Windows, untuk menyambungkan sistem mereka kepada Internet tidak sukar, jika timbul masalahpun mereka boleh mendapatkan khidmat nasihat daripada ISP(Pembekal Perkhidmatan Internet). Berbeza pula bagi pengguna Linux, pengguna Linux perlu memahami konsep serta perlu pula memahami aspek teknikal tentang modem. Juga perlu pula banyak membaca dokumentasi berkenaan perkara ini. …

Login sistem
Pengguna yang ingin menggunakan sistem LINUX perlu mempunyai nama login. Kenapa? Kerana LINUX merupakan Sistem Pengoperasian yang menyokong ramai pengguna login kedalam sistem dalam masa yang sama. Oleh itu setiap pengguna akan mempunyai nama login serta akaun tersendiri. Ini bagi mengelakkan pengguna melihat fail rahsia yang dipunyai oleh pengguna lain atau memadam fail yang penting daripada sistem komputer.
Pengguna yang login sebagai ROOT adalah pengguna yang berkuasa kerana mampu melakukan apa sahaja terhadap sistem. Pengguna ini mampu menambah cakera kedalam sistem …

a) membina ruang untuk LINUX
Sebelum LINUX boleh dipasang pada komputer perkara yang perlu dipertimbangkan adalah ruang untuk memasang LINUX. Sesetengah orang akan membuang terus WINDOWS daripada komputer mereka sekiranya ruang tidak mencukupi. Sesetengahnya pula lebih selesa dengan tidak membuat perubahan drastik seperti itu tetapi hanya bercadang supaya LINUX dapat dipasang bersama - sama dengan Sistem Pengoperasian lain. Cara yang paling mudah untuk menyelesaikan masalah ini adalah membeli cakera keras yang lain memandangkan harganya yang tidaklah semahal mana. Sekiranya Sistem Pengoperasian lama …