When SuSE Linux founder Hubert Mantel announced his resignation from Novell last week, he became the third former SuSE executive to leave in the past six months. There was much speculation as to why ...

Microsoft has hired one of the key figures behind a popular distribution of Linux in order to educate its in-house developers about open source. Daniel Robbins, the founder and former chief architect ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CloudLinux, a leading innovator in ensuring the security, stability and availability of Linux servers and devices, today announced that CEO Igor Seletskiy will ...

Torvalds declared on his personal blog that he "broke down and bought a Nexus One last week," and that the new device had made him a "happy camper." In the relatively brief post, he describes his ...

Today we’re going to look at Linux. Not as a competitor to Windows and not as a repository of proprietary code (as SCO would have you believe), but as an alternative operating system that might have a ...

Linux's history is littered with distributions that came and went, many of which are long forgotten. There are some, however, that I actually miss, and these are they.

BOSTON, June 18 (Reuters) - The founder of Ubuntu Linux, a widely used version of the open-source operating system for personal computers, said he is not interested in a business partnership with ...

Sun Microsystems has hired Ian Murdock, who founded the Debian version of Linux and who has held various posts involving the open-source operating system. At Sun, Murdock now holds the title of chief ...