Every website needs a web server, and every web server runs on an operating system. Linux and Windows Server are your choices, and our guide will help you pick the right OS. Our team tests, rates, and ...

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.

Microsoft still holds the lion's share of the server operating system market, but Linux shipments grew slightly faster than Windows did last year, according to a new report. Microsoft's Windows held ...

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux® in the enterprise, today announced the completion of a global Linux market share and ...

[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 ...

You're right, there are a ton of options out there, and we've written about many of them in the past—but we've never really compared them to one another. So, here are a few of our favorite options, ...

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 ...

Certifications from Red Hat, Oracle and SUSE are tailored to environments where those Linux distributions are prevalent.

When a microprocessor vulnerability rocked the tech industry last year, companies scrambled to patch nearly every server they had. In Oracle’s case, that meant patching the operating system on about 1 ...

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FRAMINGHAM, Mass., August 26, 2009 - A recent IDC study reveals that worldwide revenue from Linux operating system software grew by 23.4% from 2007 to 2008, and that growth will be followed by a ...

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 ...