And in September Intel and Netscape invested in the leading Linux distributor, Red Hat Software.

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In August, Red Hat, the world's biggest Linux distributor, did the same in America.

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With SuSE, a Linux distributor, the connection is obvious, but MP3.com's interest in Linux-based ReiserFS is less clear-cut.

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On the pro side, OLPC has big-ticket partners, including Google, key Intel rival Advanced Micro Devices, Linux distributor Red Hat, and RupertMurdochRupert Murdoch's News Corp.

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Red Hat, the world's largest Linux distributor, has provided an extremely compact version of its Fedora operating system, called Sugar, that uses a mere 130 megabytes of the XO's flash memory.

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Meanwhile, the German Linux distributor S.u.

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Linux software distributor Red Hat named former Delta Airlines Chief Operating Officer James Whitehurst as its new chief executive on Thursday.

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Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) announced a pact with Linux software distributor Xandros Monday that will the offer tiny company's customers so-called "patent covenants, " protecting them from the threat of litigation from Microsoft.

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