Business services supporting Linux and open-source applications have attained mainstream status in Western Europe, according to a new report from IDC. The report released Thursday said that businesses ...

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's a Linux Systems Group at Microsoft that has developed a number of products -- some for customers and partners and others for internal use. One of this group's deliverables is an internal Linux ...

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 ...