Amazon Web Services now offers online access to Windows servers, and Linux gets a reliability commitment. Also: new features coming in 2009. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

A minimal Linux distro from Microsoft? Anything is possible.

Microsoft's Linux server distribution is now available as an ISO to install on your own server or virtual machine.

The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit technology consortium that enables innovation through open-source software, today announced the launch of two new initiatives: the NextArch Foundation and Project ...

Desktop as a Service provider Shells offers a new component to virtual cloud computing. It brings Linux distros and Windows 10 to any computer, mobile device, and some game consoles, via any Web ...

Linux operating system distributor Suse says it is gaining ground among cloud service providers as their choice platform for delivering the open source OS to customers, but at least one analyst says ...

For years, CentOS Linux was Linux-savvy system administrators' top choice. They could use it and get the best of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) without paying for support -- unless they really needed ...

Google says UC San Diego plans to launch a 2,000 Pixel phone data center in fall 2026, turning retired smartphone ...

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, and Linux Foundation Education today announced a strategic partnership with Udemy, a ...

From startups launching with a bold idea and enterprises scaling globally to public sector organizations being able to do ...

Linux may not quite stack up to Windows when it comes to the raw number of attacks against systems running the operating system, but threat actor interest in Linux-based servers and technologies has ...