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Red Hat posts Fedora Core 5

The latest edition of Red Hat's community-supported Linux distribution is now available for download. If you're a Linux geek, it doesn't get much better than this. Slashdot is linking to a  video describing the improvements over Fedora Core 4. What's one to do with Fedora Core Linux, you ask?  Well, why not build a bicycle-powered telephone system? Or do some wicked pagination? Or, ...

2005 a "watershed for open source"

BusinessWeek is running an article called A Watershed for Open Source, which identifies 2005 as a big year—perhaps the biggest yet—for open source. The article says that 87% of businesses are using now using open source software in some capacity, though for having polled "a dozen experts, investors, early adopters, and entrepreneurs," their round-up of the biggest open source ...

Linux on Dell? Uh, maybe.

Want Linux on that Dell, dude? Maybe you can get it, maybe you can't. In answering a question about whether the company would ship computers with Linux pre-installed, Dell CEO Chairman Michael Dell cited the fact that there are too many distros to choose from,and suggested that customers seeking Linux pick up one of the company's n-series boxes — which include FreeDOS and no other software ...

Linux users demanding more

As the annual LinuxWorld conference begins, The Wall Street Journal has a warning for open source developers: pay attention to the needs of corporate customers. According to the Journal article, some corporate customers, including Tommy Hilfiger, have switched to Windows from Linux and other open source tools, because of reliability concerns. The paper also reports that both Red Hat and Novell - ...