Linux

This week Red Hat released RHEL 7.6 with enhancements to security and compliance, management and automation, and containers.

Big Blue has bet the farm that IBM ownership of Red Hat will pay big dividends.

Linux was created first and foremost with PCs in mind, but Linux on the desktop is no longer where innovation is at.

The OpenStack Foundation has released StarlingX, a new open source platform ready to take you to the edge...

The Red Hat deal represents an admission by IBM that in-house growth wasn’t going to be enough to keep the company from falling permanently behind in a market that is growing in importance and size.

Big Blue's acquisition of Red Hat probably has very little to do with Linux and much to do with the cloud.

Acquiring Red Hat makes IBM “a credible player in cloud now -- both private and hybrid cloud,” Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Anurag Rana said. “This gives them an asset that looks forward and not backwards.”

Canonical says that the latest version of its Ubuntu Server Linux operating system incorporates input from the financial services industry.

The free SUSE training program aims to help universities, schools and other learning institutions provide open source skills to IT workers.

The company has joined OIN, giving up its ability to sue users of Linux for infringing any of 90,000 or so patents it holds. Not everyone in the open source community believes in its good intentions.