Companies are treating these repositories like content delivery networks - now the Linux Foundation and colleagues are saying ...

Long gone are the days when you would buy your software on a disk and your company's IT administrators were tasked with installing and maintaining that software without the help of the automatic ...

FreeBSD, Haiku, and other systems everyone mistakes for Linux are actually their own OS outside of the system that you are ...

A famous quote from Marshall McLuhan’s book, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Ma n, reads, “The medium is the message.” It refers to the fact that the interpretation, value and meaning of ...

SUSE SA, Oracle Corp. and Ctrl IQ Inc. announced Thursday the formation of a new industry alliance forming the Open Enterprise Linux Association, OpenELA, a new organization that aims to encourage the ...

I had dinner with a friend the other night. He works at a large retailer on the IT side and was telling me why he and his company are reluctant to embrace GNU General Public License (GPL)-licensed ...

For the longest time, open-source was nothing more than a buzzword rattling around the brains of technologists and fans of the Linux operating system. Flash forward a decade or so and open-source has ...