Alongside Red Hat and Novell's recent pulling away from the consumer Linux space, some are not confident the operating system (OS) will be ready for the mainstream market anytime soon. Both big open ...

Two Linux distros that look like Windows, but caters to completely different users.

Commentary--Over the years, the question “is Linux ready for the desktop” has been raised time and time again, and countless articles have been written about the strengths and weaknesses of this ...

For years, fans and critics alike have debated the question of whether Linux has what it takes to move beyond the developer, hobbyist, and enterprise server space to capture the hearts and minds of ...

Supporting Quote: "In 2001, Linux started popping up on servers run by adventurous penny-pinchers at places like Amazon.com, which saved millions of dollars by replacing Sun servers running Solaris ...

It’s an odd thing to see the leaders of an impressive open source project ask the press and their followers to please calm down and stop celebrating their accomplishments. But the builders of the one ...

Linux is ready to take on a more serious role in enterprises, a senior Hewlett-Packard executive has said. Randy Hergett, HP's director of engineering for open-source and Linux organization, said at ...