Long before Linux was introduced, I worked as a Unix system administrator. In those days, I downloaded the source code, unpacked the tarball archive it arrived in, compiled it, and installed it ...

In a press conference at the Red Hat Summit in San Diego, Red Hat CEO Matt Szulik said customers have been asking for better interoperability for 14 years and have received nothing from Microsoft.

Mark Shuttleworth, creator of the Ubuntu, said in a blog post Wednesday that his open source operating system is becoming more popular than rival Red Hat Enterprise Linux among large business users.

In deciding it would fork RHEL, SUSE declared it would invest more than $10 million toward the development and maintenance of an RHEL-compatible distribution available to all without restrictions.

Windows users in CM vendor Alfresco's community reported Vista adoption was just 2 percent, compared to 63 percent for XP and 28 percent for Windows Server 2003 Ubuntu and Red Hat are the most used ...

Not all Linux distributions provide platforms for enterprise and non-business adopters. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and the Fedora Project let users keep their Linux computing all in the family.

"No comment" from Red Hat on whether it will strike a deal with rival VMware. "Windows Server on vCloud Hybrid Service will cost $25 per virtual CPU per month, while CentOS is free." Is that $25 for ...