Ever wonder why Linux company Red Hat Inc. is called that? In an interview with Red Hat Magazine, co-founder Bob Young said that the red hat has long been a symbol of freedom, with revolutionaries in ...

Raleigh-based software company Red Hat has given the Triangle a lot more than an amphitheater and a sign on a building. What’s in store for the tech giant after IBM spent $34 billion to buy it? From ...

Long before Linux was introduced, I worked as a Unix system administrator. In those days, I downloaded the source code, unpacked the tarball archive it arrived in, compiled it, and installed it ...

From two guys in Durham to a multibillion-dollar corporation, here are key moments in Red Hat’s 30-year history. 1983: American software programmer Richard Stallman founds the GNU Project, a ...