Introduce Students to Red Hat and FOSS

Designed for both students and new instructors, these resources provide a strong introduction to Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).

• Watch the Story of Linux to learn how Linux was created and where Linux, especially Red Hat is used today. : The Story of Linux
• In the 1970s Bell Labs colleagues Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie developed UNIX, a multi-tasking, multi-user operating system that is the model Linux is based on. This video tells their story. : The Thompson and Ritchie Story
• As IT systems and workloads get more complex, the underlying architecture and operating system must be reliable, scalable, and performance driven. Linux is the stable foundation for all IT workloads and deployments—whether traditional or innovative—from bare metal to virtual, cloud, and containers." -- from the article : Understanding Linux
• Sharing the human-readable source code to an application allows competitors to use a common instructor and built innovation on top of it. These improvement are then shared with the wider Open Source community. The Open Source Way
• Open-source software powers nearly all the world’s major companies. This software is freely available, and is developed collaboratively, maintained by a broad network that includes everyone from unpaid volunteers to employees at competing tech companies. Here’s how giving away software for free has proven to be a viable business model." -- from the video description: The Rise Of Open-Source Software
• Fedora is a community driven and commercially sponsored distribution of Linux. It obviously takes its name from the hat, and funnily enough forms the starting ground of RHEL - Red Hat Enterprise Linux, created and maintained primarily by - you guessed it - Red Hat." -- from the Video description A Short History of Fedora Linux
• A simple explanation of the structure, roles, and terminology of how Open Source Software works. Watch this video to learn the basics of how open source projects manage change." -- from the video description Open Source Basics
• Open Source software is not freeware, shareware or software in the public domain. This video explains in layman's terms the basics of Free/Open Source licenses. Open Source Software Licensing Basics for Corporate Users
• Nice, upbeat video about how Red Hat brings Open Source to the Enterprise. The Red Hat Story
• While Linux is running our phones, friend requests, tweets, financial trades, ATMs and more, most of us don't know how it's actually built. This short video takes you inside the process by which the largest collaborative development project in the history of computing is organized." -- from the video description How Linux is Built