Linux is on a five-year maturity model (currently at mid-Year 3). This compares with Unix, which took more than 10 years to mature. A key driver that helps shorten the Linux maturity cycle is ...

Progeny Linux Systems has decided to stop developing its own version of the open-source operating system and instead focus on selling services, the company said Monday. The move completes a change in ...

There is a dream that almost everyone involved in integration has. This dream goes by a handful of names -- sometimes called single sign-on, password synchronization and so on -- but it's essentially ...

Maybe you're married to Microsoft Exchange, but you secretly pine for open-source e-mail tools like SpamAssassin or fetchmail. Or maybe you're using Unix-based applications for some network services, ...

If your Linux machine is taking its own sweet time booting, you have a built-in tool to help discover where the problem lies.

If you haven’t already launched a Linux server in the cloud, this might be the perfect time. Why? because you can set one up in a matter of minutes because you have lots of choices on what ...

One of the most crucial pieces of any UNIX-like operating system is the init dæmon process. In Linux, this process is started by the kernel, and it's the first userspace process to spawn and the last ...