On Heels of IBM Deal, Red Hat Boosts Community Linux With Fedora 29 | Linux Today

On Heels of IBM Deal, Red Hat Boosts Community Linux With Fedora 29

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Sean Michael Kerner
Nov 13, 2018

Red Hat is one busy company, on Oct. 28 the Linux vendor announced it was being acquired by IBM in a massive $34 billion deal. A day later on Oct. 29, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 was announced, providing a new release of the company’s flagship platform. Red Hat’s community Fedora Linux project also has been busy, releasing Fedora 29 on Oct. 29 as well, providing users with an improved experience across desktop, server and cloud. Among the new items that have debuted in Fedora 29 is the new SilverBlue edition for container use-cases.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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