Rapid growth in the market for x86 servers over the past year brought good news for both Linux and Windows, as research firm IDC reported last week. What’s not always appreciated, however, is just how ...

In a dramatic departure, the company says it will sell general-purpose Linux servers and "aggressively participate in the Linux community." Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Most people assume Linux is secure, and that’s a false assumption. Imagine your laptop is stolen without first being hardened. A thief would probably assume your username is “root” and your password ...

Debian Linux is one of the oldest Linux distributions still kicking, and it comes recommended with good reason. Its stable ...

Linux is a free and open-source operating system that has the largest installed base of all general-purpose operating systems (OS). Its underlying source code may be used, modified and distributed by ...

Linux powers everything from humble, small business servers to Amazon, Facebook, Google, and the London Stock Exchange. Linux servers offer all the flexibility and power you’ll ever need. In this ...

IBM has spread its Linux marketing push to its iSeries servers, a line designed for medium-sized companies running specific programs, the company plans to announce Wednesday. IBM has been backing a ...

A Linux Terminal Server offers any business an elegant and cost-effective way to integrate the power of open source. In this article, I review some basics of network topology and offer suggestions ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. and Linux clustering software vendor Linux NetworX Inc. are joining their efforts to offer powerful HP server clusters linked together with specialized management applications. In ...