Red Hat will release a new version of its software for corporate desktops, while Sun will use Linux on its own desktop PCs as part of a plan to cut real estate costs. Stephen Shankland Former ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Linux got a big boost this week with the announcement that Lenovo is certifying some of its ThinkPad and ThinkStation PCs to run the operating system. Windows may be the popular “desktop” operating ...

Red Hat 8.0, which was developed under the code name Limbo, will offer a spruced-up graphical user interface based on GNOME 2.0 with themes, improved buttons, scroll bars and menus, and updated ...

Expanded Podman capabilities in RHEL 9.3 and forthcoming RHEL 8.9 allow users to automate the configuration of container networks, health checks, and secrets and use Quadlet container definitions. Red ...

What's the difference? Why two versions of one enterprise Linux distro? While under the hood there are many specific differences, the big one is that the RHEL 8 distro family is based on older, battle ...

When what was then called Red Hat Linux first appeared in 1994, Gunnar Hellekson was working as a student systems administrator for Drew University. Nearly three decades later, Hellekson (pictured) is ...