Red Hot OS of LINUX

2. • Red Hat, Inc. is an American multinational software company providing
open-source software products to the enterprise community. Founded in
1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North
Carolina, with satellite offices worldwide.
• MISSION-To be the catalyst in
communities of customers,
contributors, and partners creating
better technology the open source
way.

3. • In 1993 Bob Young incorporated
the ACC Corporation, a catalog
business that sold Linux and Unix
software accessories.
• Ewing released the software in
October, and it became known as
the Halloween release.
• Young bought Ewing's business in
1995, and the two merged to
become Red Hat Software, with
Young serving as chief executive
officer.

5. One Laptop per Child –
• Red Hat engineers work with the One Laptop
per Child initiative to design and produce an
inexpensive laptop
• provide every child in the world with access to
open communication, open knowledge, and open
learning.
• Dogtail –
• An open-source graphical user interface (GUI)
test, consists of free software released under
the GNU General Public License (GPL)
• It is written in Python. It allows developers to
build and test their applications.

6. MRG –
• Red Hat MRG is a clustering
infrastructure platform.
• The acronym MRG stands for
"Messaging Realtime Grid".
 OpenShift –
• a cloud computing platform as a
service.
• It supports applications written in
Node.js, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby,
JavaEE and more.

7. Red Hat, Inc created
its subsidiary Red Hat
India to deliver Red
Hat software, support,
and services to
customers in India.
The opening of Red
Hat India is in
response to the rapid
demand for open
source solutions from
the Indian markets is
rising and Red Hat
wants to play a major
role in this region.
In 2006 Red Hat
India had a
distribution network
of more than 70
channel partners
spanning 27 cities
across India.Red Hat
India's channel
partners included
Ashtech Infotech Pvt
Ltd, Efensys
Technologies, Embee
Software, Allied
Digital Services, and
Softcell Technologies.

8.  Free.
 Reliable, No crashes.
 Simple to use and install.
 Developer friendly.
 Runs on several different
platforms.
 Can coexist with other OS’s.

9. WINDOWS
• All the flavours of windows
come from Microsoft.
• Windows has two main lines.The
older flavours are referred to
as “win9x” and consists of
windows 95,98,98SE etc.
• Windows GUI is essential for
OS.
• Windows must boot from the
first hard disk.
LINUX
• The various distributions of
linux come from different
companies like –Linspire ,Red
hat linux,SuSE, Ubuntu etc.
• Flavours are referred to as
distributions.They differ on the
add on software.
• Linux GUI is optional.
• Linus can boot from any hard
disk.

10. • DISK DRUID – for disk
partitioning
• SOSREPORT– reports system
hardware and configuration
details
• SYSTEMTAP – tracing tool for
Linux kernels
• NETWORK MANAGER