It's not Linux, or even Unix.

KDE, one of the major interfaces designed to make Linux slick looking and easier to use, gets an upgrade, including the first results of work funded by the German government. Stephen Shankland worked ...

The "Linux vs. Windows" argument is just ridiculous.

When I first started dabbling with Linux back in the 1990s, a lot of various types of software was missing for me to be able to use it full time. Games. Video editing tools. High-quality productivity ...

What's so special about it? Simple, eBPF enables you to run programs in the Linux kernel without changing the kernel source code or adding additional modules. In effect, it acts like a lightweight, ...

Linux is regularly appearing on IT organizations' shortlists for Web and application deployments. It is increasingly being considered for small databases (2-4 processors). In a Lintel world, we are ...

Linux skills are in growing demand in today’s IT hiring landscape, and there are many ways to bolster those skills both online and off. Whereas many such offerings target IT professionals, however, a ...

Just one issue stands between me and my Linux daily driver, and this solution is all it'll take to turn the tables.

Amazon last month quietly started offering enterprise customers its own version of Linux called Linux 2. Customers can run Linux 2 in Amazon's cloud or on their own in-house servers. It marks the ...

A Win/Mac developer recently asked me what I thought about his plan to create a binary of his application and sell it to interested Linux sound and music people. He asked with some trepidation, having ...

SWsoft, a VMware competitor whose software lets a single Intel server run 10 to 200 instances of Linux, has signed deals to sell its product in conjunction with Dell Computer and IBM servers, the ...

There’s no doubt that demand for IT professionals with Linux skills is growing rapidly, and earlier this year I wrote about a brand-new certification program targeting newcomers to the open source ...