Linux (come on, you knew it’d be Linux) takes a different approach: no locks, no guardrails, no limits. That’s what makes Linux a real operating system, something its competitors, dwarfing it in ...

Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there ...

SuSE Linux is bundling e-mail and groupware applications with its Linux server operating system in a new product aimed at the business market. The SuSE Linux Openexchange Server features SuSE's Linux ...

Your Linux server is powerful, but are you taking advantage of all it has to offer? Linux expert Jack Wallen developed the “From start to finish series” to help you make the most of the OS. Linux is ...

Novell's NetWare-SuSE Linux combination is slated for completion next month. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is also due this winter. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...

Austin, Texas – Workloads running on Linux servers are shifting to become more business oriented, including databases and line-of-business applications, and the operating system appears headed for ...

Setting up a secure server isn’t necessarily for the faint of heart. To make it easier for IT administrators, Guardian Digital Inc. has released (download PDF) EnGarde Secure Linux Version 1.2, ...

Linux turns 35 years this year, and the operating system remains the backbone of most supercomputers. Here's why the world's ...

Microsoft Windows may be dominating the headlines for security-related breaches but the open-source Linux server operating system remains the biggest target of overt intruder attacks, according to a ...

In 1991, Unix was an important but secondary x86 operating system. That year, on August 25, a mild-mannered Finnish graduate student named Linus Benedict Torvalds announced on the Usenet group comp.os ...

FreeBSD, Haiku, and other systems everyone mistakes for Linux are actually their own OS outside of the system that you are ...

Serious Linux vulnerabilities, like Copy Fail and Dirty Frag, are becoming more common. Here's why, and how the Linux ...