ZDNET's key takeaways FreeBSD is one of the most stable OSes on the planet.FreeBSD is also more challenging than Linux.You ...

Sudo lets you run any terminal command as another user — hence "substitute user" — but the default and most common use for it ...

The open-source Linux operating system is widely deployed across modern enterprises, and a new study sponsored by enterprise vendor SUSE Linux aims to reveal precisely what workloads Linux is running.

Immutable Linux is the future and Ultramarine has big plans to make the switch some time in the future. Until then, it should still be on the top of your "wish list" of Linux distributions.

In recent years, Microsoft has warmed up to Linux, which it used to see as a rival. Now, there's more use of Linux than Windows on Microsoft Azure.

The collection of user data has become a contentious issue for people worldwide. Fortunately, Canonical has shown how it can be done right.

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...

The past two years have already seen significant jumps in corporate Linux usage, but now it looks like that trend is continuing into a third year. To wit: While overall server revenue grew at just 3.1 ...

Nearly every month, there are more reports of federal, state, and local governments in the United States running Linux on new applications. Based on the anecdotal evidence, Linux is everywhere. But ...

According to InternetNews.com, the Large Hadron Collider project that we’ve been hearing so much about runs a customized version of Linux called CernVM. Apparently it ran Vista at first, but the Aero ...