Posts Tagged ‘Linux’

11
May
2022

Germany China move from Windows to Linux

categories: Digital literacy, e-learning, educational technology, information literacy, technology literacy

After Germany, China Now Wants To Ditch Windows & Run Linux On 50 Million PCs!

It’s a big win for the open-source community!

https://fossbytes.com/china-wants-to-run-linux-on-50-million-pcs/

While this is a big win for Linux and open-source software, it’s bad news for laptop/PC manufacturers like Dell, HP, etc., and software companies like Adobe and Microsoft, except Lenovo and Kingsoft. While manufacturers will be driven into the corner to become “foreign” companies, homegrown companies like Lenovo, Huawei, and Kingsoft might see rapid market growth in the forthcoming years.

29
Oct
2018

IBM acquires Red Hat

categories: Android, educational technology, information technology, technology literacy

IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat is huge news for the Linux world

by MATTHEW HUGHES —  in DESIGN & DEV

https://thenextweb.com/dd/2018/10/28/ibms-acquisition-of-red-hat-is-huge-news-for-the-linux-world/

Red Hat, although not quite a household name, is an undeniably significant company, with lots of fingers in lots of pies, especially when it comes to cloud computing and the Linux ecosystem.

The gem in its crown is arguably the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider OpenShift, which directly competes with the Salesforce-owned Heroku and Google App Engine. It also owns and develops Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), which is employed across several commercial settings, including workstations, servers, and supercomputers.

Red Hat is an enthusiastic contributor to several major Linux projects, playing a role in developing Libre Office and GNOME, as well as the Kernel itself.

in 2016, Red Hat was the second most prolific contributor to the Linux Kernel, narrowly trailing silicon mega-titan Intel