Corel Computer and Red Hat Software Announce Linux Operating System Partnership.OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 1998--COREL (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :COSFF) (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :COS.) Red Hat to port to StrongARM(r) processor. Corel Computer and Red Hat Software, Inc. today announced an agreement to bring the Red Hat(r) distribution of Linux(r) to the Corel Computer NetWinder(tm) family of thin-clients and thin-servers. Under the three-year agreement, Red Hat will port Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux, assembled by Red Hat, was a popular, "middle-aged" Linux distribution (not as old as Slackware but older than Ubuntu) upon its discontinuation in 2004.[1] Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. 5.1 and future releases of the software to the StrongARM(r) processor, the underlying architecture of the NetWinder. "We are pleased to be able to offer our NetWinder customers the benefits of the award-winning Linux distribution The Linux operating system packaged for customers for a fee. It includes the Linux kernel, essential operating system components from the GNU Project, an installation program, various open source utilities and applications, documentation and technical support. from Red Hat," said Ron McNab, vice president and general manager of Corel Computer. "The partnership will allow us to concentrate on our core business -- building one of the most powerful and easy-to-use thin-clients and thin-servers on the market." The agreement provides Corel Computer with the right to use the Red Hat distribution of Linux including the Red Hat name and logo on the NetWinder products. Additionally, Corel Computer has the rights to distribute Red Hat CD ROMs and printed documentation manuals to customers. "I am pleased to announce that Red Hat Linux will soon be available on the exciting new NetWinder platform," said Robert Young Robert Young or Bob Young may refer to several different people:
Currently the NetWinder family is running a custom Linux distribution based on Red Hat 4.2. When available, NetWinder customers will be able to upgrade their systems by either downloading the operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. from Corel Computer or Red Hat, or by purchasing a CD ROM and manual from either vendor. Red Hat Software, Inc. Red Hat Software, Inc., a leading distributor of the Linux operating system, Red Hat builds, maintains and provides technical support for the Red Hat Linux operating system. Linux runs on Intel(r), Alpha(tm) and Sun(tm) SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill (tm) platforms. Corel Computer Corel Computer, a global player in the design and manufacture of high quality thin-client, thin-server and video conferencing See videoconferencing. (communications) video conferencing - A discussion between two or more groups of people who are in different places but can see and hear each other using electronic communications. products, markets the NetWinder(tm) and CorelVIDEO(tm) product lines as part of a strategy to merge communications and computing on the desktop. As a vigorous proponent of open standards and vendor neutral technology, Corel Computer has incorporated the StrongARM(r) microprocessor and the Linux(r) operating system into its compact, powerful NetWinder network computing products, which deliver more than 250 MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. yet consumes a fraction of the power of an average desktop computer. Its CorelVIDEO platform comprises reliable, scalable tools for face-to-face video communications, whether across the hall or around the world. Corel Computer is a separate division of Corel Corporation, an award-winning developer of graphics software and productivity applications. Company information is available on the World Wide Web at www.corelcomputer.com. Corel and CorelVIDEO are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation. Used with permission. NetWinder is a trademark of Corel Computer Corp. StrongARM is a registered trademark of ARM Ltd. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Used with permission. INTEL is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. SPARC is a registered trademark of SPARC International, Inc. Products bearing the SPARC trademarks are based on an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. ALPHA is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation. UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). is a registered trademark of The Open Group. All other names and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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