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6 unusual facts about Red Hat


Dulduityn Danzanravjaa

Other than his writings, he was also known for his syncretic combination of Yellow Hat and Red Hat sect beliefs.

Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software

In the book, Bob Young of Red Hat supports the free software movement by saying that it enables people to stand on the shoulders of giants.

Glenn Hauman

Hauman was a founder of Hell's Kitchen Systems, Inc., which was purchased by Red Hat in 2000 for $85.6 million.

Märchenbrunnen

The fountain is decorated in well—known fairy tale characters, such as the Brothers Grimm, Hansel and Gretel, Puss in Boots, Cinderella, Red Hat, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and medieval legends such as the Ryubetsal.

Scalable Inman Flash Replacement

sIFR has been used on a variety of well-known web pages, such as those of GE, Nike and Red Hat.

Westford, Massachusetts

By the 1990s, Westford was home to offices for Red Hat, Samsung, Seagate, Iris Associates, Visual Solutions, and many other technology firms, most located along Massachusetts Route 110, parallel to I-495.


Apache Qpid

In 2005 JPMorgan Chase approached other firms to form a working group that included Cisco Systems, IONA Technologies, iMatix, Red Hat, and Transaction Workflow Innovation Standards Team (TWIST).

Bloombase

In 2007, Bloombase announced StoreSafe virtual appliance edition for enterprise storage system security, supporting virtual machine containers including VMware ESX, Citrix Xen, Oracle VirtualBox, Microsoft Hyper-V, IBM PowerVM, and Red Hat Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM).

Corticon

Corticon’s competitors include: Bosch Software Innovations, FICO, IBM/ILOG, InRule Technology, OpenRules, Pegasystems, Red Hat, and others.

Croscore fonts

The fonts were developed by Steve Matteson of Ascender Corporation as Ascender Sans and Ascender Serif, which are also used for the Liberation fonts licensed by Red Hat under another open source license.

Eazel

The enterprise was staffed with former employees of Apple, Netscape, Be Inc., Linuxcare, Microsoft, Red Hat and Sun Microsystems, among others.

InScript keyboard

With this urgent requirement in mind, CDAC GIST involved in the initiative all major players: IBM, Microsoft and Red Hat Linux and hence in 2008, a joint meeting was organized between CDAC GIST and senior representatives of these multi-nationals to devise a common and uniform strategy for inputting and equally important for storage.

M+NetMail

NetMail components are available for SUSE and Red Hat Linux, Novell NetWare v5.1 and later, Novell Open Enterprise Server (in both its OES-Linux and OES-NetWare versions), and Microsoft Windows platforms.

Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway

UAG performs particularly well in providing a portal for web applications, such as web-based email and intranets, but it also provides full SSL VPN network access using either ActiveX (when using Internet Explorer) or Java components (when using Firefox, Opera, non Windows client such as Red Hat or Mac OS).

Open Cluster Framework

Original supporters included several computing companies and groups, including Compaq, Conectiva, IBM, Linux-HA, MSC Software, the Open Source Development Lab, OSCAR, Red Hat, SGI and SUSE.

Openda

The main hardware for servers running Openda's software system is provided either by IBM or Dell, with the Red Hat distribution of Linux as the preferred operating system.

Stackdriver

Stackdriver's founders secured $5 million funding from Bain in July 2012 and hired a team (including engineers from Red Hat, Acquia and EMC, as well as StyleFeeder founder Phil Jacob).

StreamMyGame

The Player is installed on the computer or device on which the game is to be played and is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 along with Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, Xandros, Debian and Yellow Dog Linux.

V.i. Labs

In January 2009, V.i. Labs announced CodeArmor Intelligence support for Red Hat Linux.

Virtual resource partitioning

VRP can be implemented in any OS and is available on Windows, Red Hat, Suse, HP-UX, Solaris, tru64, AIX and others.

Ximian Desktop

Rather than being a complete Linux distribution, it was designed to fit on top of existing distributions, such as Red Hat and Suse.

XTuple

Jeffrey Lyon, the original developer of OpenMFG, contacted Ned LIlly, then of Great Bridge, a company incubated within Landmark Media Enterprises (formerly Landmark Communications), whose owner, Frank Batten Jr., had heavily invested in Red Hat.


see also

Hanle Monastery

Hanle Monastery or Hanle or Analy Gompa is a 17th century Buddhist monastery of the "Red Hat" Tibetan Drukpa Kagyu branch of Tibetan Buddhism, located in the Hanle Valley, Leh District, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir in northern India on an old branch of the ancient Ladakh - Tibet trade route.

Red Hat Network

On June 18, 2008 Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst announced plans for the RHN Satellite software to be open-sourced following the Fedora/RHEL model.

Red Hat Society

In Corner Gas, a Canadian sitcom, one of the main characters, Lacey Burrows, joins the "Purple Hat Society", a reference to the Red Hat Society.

The Red Hat Society is parodied in an episode of The Simpsons, "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas", when Marge joins a group called the Cheery Red Tomatoes.

Red Hat v. SCO

SCO replied with both a press release and two letters to Red Hat on the same day; their claims are reiterated in the press release ("Linux includes source code that is a verbatim copy of UNIX and carries with it no warranty or indemnification. SCO's claims are true and we look forward to proving them in court."), and the allegations made by Red Hat are denied ("SCO has not been trying to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt to end users.").

The additional information contained two letters sent by The SCO Group to Lehman Brothers, a Red Hat customer.

Sainshand

The restored Buddhist monastery Khamariin Khiid (Khamar) is 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of the city, and Sainshand itself houses a museum dedicated to the nineteenth century monastic and literary figure Danzanravjaa, a prominent leader of the Nyingma (Red Hat) school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Shylock

During the 1600s in Venice and in some other places, Jews were required to wear a red hat at all times in public to ensure that they were easily identified.

Sunderland Art Gallery

For example, 'River Wear at Sunderland' (1961) and 'Girl in a Red Hat on a Promenade' (1972) - an enigmatic piece composed at Seaburn.

Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006

TRT presented the song that Sibel will sing in a special televised press conference, and presented the video clip which involves Sibel wearing a red hat with the Turkish flag on it.