How to Put the E in Enterprise Linux #LinuxCon | Linux Today

How to Put the E in Enterprise Linux #LinuxCon

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Sean Michael Kerner
Sep 1, 2012

What’s the difference between a community Linux distribution and an enterprise LInux distribution?

That’s the question that Tim Burke, vice-president of Linux Engineering at Red Hat answered during a keynote address at the LinuxCon conference. Burke began by telling the audience that he originally came to Red Hat from the Unix world. Unix to Linux migration is a key starting point in the discussion about what an enterprise Linux is all about.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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