Red Hat denies OpenStack favoritism claims

IDG News Service - Red Hat said it provides commercial support for its Linux distribution regardless of which version of OpenStack its customers are using, rejecting a report to the contrary from earlier Wednesday.

"To be clear, users are free to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux with any OpenStack offering, and there is no requirement to use our OpenStack technologies to get a Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription," Paul Cormier, Red Hat president for products and technologies, said in a blog post.
Cormier was responding to a Wall Street Journal report from earlier that charged that Red Hat will not support Red Hat Enterprise Linux if the customer uses a version of the cloud hosting software from another company.
"In its quest to sell OpenStack, Red Hat has chosen not to provide support to its commercial Linux customers if they use rival versions of OpenStack," the report said, citing "documents" seen by the newspaper.
Red Hat's support, which includes providing bug fixes and technical support, is one of the key reasons people pay for its software instead of opting for a free version of Linux, the report notes.
The article raises the idea that Red Hat may be using its dominance in Linux to get a foothold in the nascent but potentially large market for OpenStack software.
Cormier insisted that's not the case. "Red Hat's track record of supporting collaborative innovation and our unwavering commitment to truly open open source are unparalleled," he wrote.

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A75-UD4H claims TweakTown overclocking award

Shane Baxtor over on TweakTown.com just finished up his review of our A75-UD4H motherboard. Shane was impressed with the board, not least because he managed a nice healthy overclock on his AMD A8-3850 APU, hitting 3.7GHz from a stock 2.9GHz. Here’s a sample of what Shane had to say:

For the GIGABYTE A75-UD4H we'll be testing our A8-3850 both at stock and overclocked form, so before we get into the benchmark side of things let's first see what's going on with the overclock on offer. For weeks now GIGABYTE have been releasing details on their motherboards and overclocking results with the A8-3850. Prior to launch they had managed to break IGP records that focused on the onboard graphics side of things. With so much talk about overclocking on the GIGABYTE prior to the launch, I had high hopes for the platform when it came to overclocking and looking below, you can see it didn't disappoint.

Pushing our A8-3850 to just over 3.7GHz is no easy task, but no doubt GIGABYTE have done a good job in the BIOS and the board itself to make sure the overclocking potential is present. We ended up with our bus speed at 131MHz and we managed to leave the multiplier at the stock x29.

Shane also notes that the addition of a Dual-Link DVI port supporting resolutions of up to 2560 x 1600 pixels also makes the A75-UD4H a more attractive platform for folks with 30” monitors.

Feature wise the A75-UD4H offers us everything we want, but one of the more stand out features on it would have to be the fact that GIGABYTE have opted for a Dual-Link DVI connector on the back of their board. For a lot of people this might not be a huge issue, but what I like about it is the fact that you could use a 30" monitor with the system and not have a need for an extra video card.

While gaming at 2560 x 1600 is going to be out of the question, the fact that you could build a small, low powered system that doesn't have the need for another separate video card is impressive. From a productive perspective this is great as you can have a high resolution desktop which gives you plenty of room and build a system that's not only inexpensive, but inexpensive to run due to the fact its power draw is so low.

Check out the full review over on TweakTown.com

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