Open source distributor Red Hat has come under fire after settling two patent suits for an undisclosed sum..
The open source community believes that the firm should have faced up to the opponents and had the patents struck down as invalid by the courts.
The infringement claims were brought by Firestar Software and DataTern and concerned Hibernate, [...]

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The Fedora project today released a new version of its completely free and redistributable Linux distribution. Showcasing lots of next-generation Red Hat features, Fedora 9 also boasts new features of its own aimed at making the distribution appeal more to newer Linux users.
Fedora 9’s more salient new features include:

USB drive booting with user data persisting [...]

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Mixing technical concerns with a truckload of business issues, Red Hat has stealthily acknowledged slipping its deadline for Red Hat Global Desktop (RHGD), which might have given it an edge against Novell’s competing SuSE Linux.
Unlike the existing Red Hat Enterprise Desktop (RHED), the planned RHGD is aimed exclusively at small, reseller supplied implementations in emerging [...]

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Hopes of Red Hat releasing a desktop version of Linux for consumers were scratched today as the company announced no such plans would eventuate in the foreseeable future. Meanwhile, its long awaited Red Hat Global Desktop Linux remains on indefinite hold, despite being slated for an original launch date of August 2007.
Although Red Hat had [...]

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