The company announces its most significant foray yet into the Linux market, saying that its Foundation Suite now runs on Red Hat's version of the Unix clone. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Free operating systems based on the Linux operating system kernel invented and published by Linus Torvalds are now a serious alternative to Windows, not least due to the wide range of open source ...

One of the big advantages of using Linux is that its security tends to be so much better than that of the competing alternatives. That’s due in large part to the way Linux assigns permissions, but ...

The Linux kernel is becoming quite the popular place to be if you have anything to do with virtualization. We've talked about KVM and Xen fighting to get into the kernel, we just discussed VMware's ...