Zeb Palmer Writes…

25 Jan

Fedora 7

It’s no secret that out of all the Linux distros I use, Red Hat/Fedora is what I keep coming back to for bread and butter systems. I’m extremely excited and anxiously awaiting a preview of Fedora core 7. At the rate linux distros are going I can’t wait to see where we can be later [...]

15 Nov

Linux your Zune?

I hate iPods.
Now that I have that out of my system, let me clarify. Apple is obviously onto a winning product, however the number of paperweight ipods I see is astounding. I’m not a huge apple fan as it is, but I respect most of their hardware design and vision.
I got my hands on a [...]

05 Nov

Techworld.com - Is Oracle about to destroy Red Hat?

Hmm, just read a story on Techworld.com that expands on my previous post about the new love/war relationship between Oracle and Red Hat.
Techworld.com - Is Oracle about to destroy Red Hat?
The future for Red HatAnother fear from the OSS point of view is that this could set a precedent — not only does the move [...]

03 Nov

Debian

So I made a promise a while back to give Debian another chance. Those of you who regularly read my tech category know that I’m mainly a Red Hat (and offspring) guy. I don’t know why I just enjoy packages ending in .rpm and not .deb. :) I’m working on an article about the different [...]

02 Nov

Oracle: Why buy Red Hat, when we can take it for nothing?”

BetaNews | Oracle Makes Play for Red Hat’s Support Contracts
“So why would we buy Red Hat Linux, when we can just take it for nothing?”
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has a bit of a point. One that I failed to touch on when I last wrote about Oracle and the Red Hat buyout rumors.
Interesting business model; [...]

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