Red Hat, SuSE Intensify Linux Efforts

The major Linux vendors continue to step up to the plate, offering product upgrades and new functionality as the battle for new customer wins in the lucrative but highly competitive corporate market heats up.

Linux provider Red Hat Inc. is preparing to release the next version of its personal and professional Linux operating system, Red Hat Linux 9.0. In an e-mail to some customers on Monday, Red Hat said that, beginning March 31, paid subscribers to the Red Hat Network will have access to Red Hat Linux 9 ISOs (images of a CD that users download and then burn to blank CDs as the installation disks) a full week before retail store and Red Hat FTP availability.

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