Rapid growth in the market for x86 servers over the past year brought good news for both Linux and Windows, as research firm IDC reported last week. What’s not always appreciated, however, is ...

On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds announced a hobby project that evolved into Linux, one of the most important computing ...

What are the associated managed services with Linux and open source servers? Why might these services be important to business owners? Linux and other open-source servers are becoming more commonly ...

Not as a Server . One of the most common criticisms I hear about Arch Linux is that it's a rolling release distribution, ...

2011 saw, according to IDC, Linux servers grow while Windows and Unix servers numbers shrank. In 2012, Linux's server future looks brighter than ever.

Linux powers everything from humble, small business servers to Amazon, Facebook, Google, and the London Stock Exchange. Linux servers offer all the flexibility and power you’ll ever need. In this ...

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 ...

Even a Linux fan might not have heard of CentOS Linux but, if you’re a Web or other edge-server administrator, I can guarantee you know about CentOS. That’s because, according to Web ...

When Wim Coekaerts, Microsoft's vice president for open source, took the stage at LinuxCon 2016 in Toronto last summer, he came not as an adversary, but as a longtime Linux enthusiast promising to ...

Jack Wallen shows you an easy way to determine if your Linux server is under a DDoS attack and how to quickly stop it.

If you have hosted Linux servers, or even internal servers at remote sites that need to disappear for good, this type of system-nuking script will do the job handily.

Back in 2016, when Microsoft announced that SQL Server would soon run on Linux, the news came as a major surprise to users and pundits alike. Over the course of the last year, Microsoft’s ...