Microsoft this week announced that a new type of Linux container that runs on Windows Server 2016 will be coming soon.

Azure Linux is Microsoft’s commercial distribution of CBL-Mariner, an open-source Linux distribution, created by Microsoft, and now generally available as a container host OS for AKS.

In front of a crowd at this week's DockerCon 2017 in Austin, Texas, Microsoft showed off a new Linux container that runs on Windows Server 2016. The move would break down a fundamental wall in ...

Rancher Labs released its ultra-lightweight Linux distribution on Tuesday, a product that illustrates how the container tech revolution is creating room for innovation in the operating system ...

The culmination of Project Atomic strips down Enterprise Linux 7 to advance Red Hat's strategy of enabling application portability across cloud environments through Docker, Kubernetes.

A VMware-built Linux OS variant is optimized for containers such as Docker, part of a VMware effort to bring DevOps into the data center.

Chrome developers are working on project Crostini to bring containers for running Linux VMs on Chrome OS.

Linux-based container infrastructure is an emerging cloud technology based on fast and lightweight process virtualization. It provides its users an environment as close as possible to a standard Linux ...

Joe Brockmeier, a senior evangelist at Red Hat, explains the benefits of containers on Linux, how they work and how to prepare to use them.

The new container and container image paradigm seems to be just right as companies struggle to meet demand for applications that expand business processes across all digital platforms Linux ...

AWS has launched its own open-source operating system for running containers on both virtual machines and bare metal hosts. Bottlerocket, as the new OS is called, is basically a stripped-down ...

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 ...