Micheal Tiemann co-founder Cygnus Solutions states how, with the help of the GNU Project software and Richard Stallman, he learned to develop free(unrestricted) software. During his career Tiemann spent a long time downloading GNU software.

His company Cygnus has been acquired by Red Hat Inc.

He is president of the Open Source Initiative.

Learn about the GNU Operating system at:
http://www.gnu.org

Free Software Foundation
http://www.fsf.orgDuration : 0:0:48

Ever wondered how Red Hat got its name? You’re about to find out… Maybe. Listen as Bob Young, co-founder of Red Hat, tells three stories about how Red Hat got its name. Which one is true? Decide for yourself.Duration : 0:2:8

My Acer Aspire 5102WLMI hangs at the setup of the new Fedora 7 operating system. It needs constant contact with the touchpad or mouse in order to fully boot or load or install the OS. Ubuntu, Windows XP and Windows Vista all work fine on this machine. So why not Fedora 7? Fix this RedHat!!!Duration : 0:2:45

CentOS is a freely available Linux distribution which is based on Red Hat’s commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux product. This rebuild project strives to be 100% binary compatible with the upstream product, and within its mainline and updates, to not vary from that goal. Additional software archives hold later versions of such packages, along with other Free and Open Source Software RPM based packagings. CentOS stands for Community ENTerprise Operating System.

At least, on the VMWare Workstation where was running, the boot was very slow; other distros (like BackTrack) boot fast, more fast.Duration : 0:3:32