Looking for a Linux distribution that delivers more power and control? If you're new to Linux, only one of these may be right for you.

Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking gear.

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Linux vs. Windows: How to Pick the Best Server OS for Your Website Every website needs a web server, and every web server runs on an operating system. Linux and Windows Server are your choices, and ...

While waiting for the snow plows to clear the streets, I spent some time thinking about all of the heady forecasts we in the industry research community made back in 1994 about how Linux would grow ...

[SPONSORED CONTENT] CentOS disappeared in the dead of winter. On December 8, 2020, the day with the earliest sunset of the year in northern latitudes, Red Hat announced it would no longer support the ...

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 ...

Mac OS X Server is Apple’s Unix server operating system. At its core, OS X Server shares a number of components with FreeBSD, and most Linux or xBSD apps can be recompiled fairly easily to run on OS X ...

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 ...

If you don't know what the Linux desktop operating system is, or if you're new to it, Jack Wallen's quick explainer will get you up to speed. Linux. What is it? At one point in time it was a niche ...

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, ...

Want to know who the ‘BOSS’ of the Indian Software Industry is? No, it isn’t any human being here. It’s an operating system that has an uncanny resemblance to its name. Critics describe it as “the ...