Look at almost any mission-critical computer system in the world—servers, workstations, embedded computers, and many more—and ...

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Linux, happy 30th birthday! What the future holds for Linux Your email has been sent Today marks the official 30th birthday of the Linux operating system. Let’s all dig into that penguin-shaped cake ...

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THE I.S. DEPARTMENT at Grede Foundries, a $600-million-a-year metals company in Milwaukee, was stuck with an IBM 390 mainframe. After years of developing skills on the big iron, changing business ...

Today, SUSE announced that it is creating a hard fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and that it will develop and maintain an RHEL-compatible distribution. SUSE says that it will invest $10 ...

What's Linus Torvalds doing to celebrate the release of the gold code? Start with some beer and a long-delayed housewarming party. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 ...