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06.08.05
Red Hat Flips Its Fedora
 By David Utter
The Fedora Project gets flipped into a new group, the Fedora
Foundation, and spun off from the main corporation.
Seeking greater support from the open source community, Raleigh-based
Red Hat announced at its conference in New Orleans the formation
of the Fedora Foundation.
The move was likely a response to those who see Red Hat as
becoming too corporate in its workings, and mirrors AOL's
spinoff of the Mozilla project into its own foundation. Red
Hat will still provide financial support for the new group.
Quite a few projects in the open source community have earned
substantial support from developers. Apache and MySQL stand
out with the number of developers each has working on its
projects.
Red Hat seems to be hoping for a similar boost. Some developers
have been unhappy with the company since it introduced Fedora.
Red Hat has controlled the initiative since its departure
from the individual consumer market in favor of its Enterprise
Linux offering.
One might wonder what Jesús
Villasante thinks of the decision. Mr. Villasante thinks
US businesses use the open source community as an inexpensive
source of technology labor.
The conspiracy-minded will note that Michael Dell's investment
company, MSD Management, purchased a $99.5 million USD slice
of Red Hat's $600 million debenture pie. That happened early
in May of this year. Previously, Dell Computers have offered
Red Hat Linux as an option on some of its workstations and
servers.
And the Round Rock-based computer maker would certainly benefit
in its leadership role as PC maker from a greater Linux development
effort. Enhancements to Fedora mean enhancements to Enterprise
Linux. But this is purely speculative thinking.
Red Hat Doffs Its Chapeau To Directory Server
By David Utter
The Raleigh NC-based Linux distributor brings out a LDAP-based
server at a New Orleans summit.
The company also released Fedora Directory Server to the
open source community. The Fedora Directory Server project
is expected to mirror the existing Fedora Linux project, which
replaced the consumer market distributions of Red Hat when
the company launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Paul Cormier, Executive Vice President of Engineering at
Red Hat, said: "Today we are announcing a massively scalable,
secure, reliable, and open source directory server based on
enterprise-proven technology.
"We are very pleased to offer customers this cost effective,
high performance solution in a market where none previously
existed."
The new product offers LDAP-based services that allow admins
to centrally manage application settings, user access controls,
and group data from an operating system-independent, network
based registry.
Enterprises will find the product allows for a single point
of authentication, for both internal and external applications.
The product will be available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
versions 3 and 4, Solaris 9 on 32-bit and 64-bit Sparc platforms,
and HP-UX 11i on the PA-RISC architecture.
Red Hat advertises the Directory Server as providing a central
repository for building an Identity Management structure.
To that end, the product also works with the Red Hat Certificate
System to provide strong certificate-based authentication
of resources.
About the Author:
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