SAN FRANCISCO — The turmoil in the world of open-source software, from ongoing legal challenges against Linux by The SCO Group Inc. to global companies embracing open-source in recent years, is all ...

Some software refuses to die, even when the distro that birthed it does.

In his first 18 months as general manager of IBM’s worldwide Linux team, Jim Stallings has seen dozens of corporate shops and governments around the world push Linux from the periphery to the heart of ...

Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0 ...

When Docker burst onto the scene in 2013, Linux containers seemed like an overnight success. But the evolution to containers—and microservices and Kubernetes—was actually decades in the making, based ...

It was a big year for Linux in 2001, from IBM’s $1 billion commitment to the introduction of the latest feature-laden kernel updates. At vendor Red Hat Inc., 2001 saw the introduction of new Linux ...