Welcome to a regular series here at Forbes that zeroes in on your very first experience with a desktop Linux operating system: the installer. This time around I'm escaping my comfort zone and leaving ...

Longtime Microsoft foe Novell signs an agreement to acquire SuSE Linux for $210 million in cash, while IBM will make a $50 million investment in Novell. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

GeckoLinux is a unique distribution that goes a long way towards unifying the often-confusing array of workstation choices available to business and mainstream consumers looking for an alternative to ...

The openSUSE community is drafting a new strategy document to set a path for the future of the popular Linux distribution as its autonomy grows. One idea: start its own foundation. Hmm, is it? With ...

Novell plans to announce on Wednesday that SuSE Linux, the version of the open-source operating system it acquired earlier this month, has passed a new level of security certification. Stephen ...

Congratulations are in order for the fine folks at SUSE LLC. Today in Nuremburg, Germany SUSE announces the availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 (SLES 12). SLES 12 is a much-anticipated release ...

After testing the waters for years, Microsoft has launched its first service, Azure Cloud Switch, that's based on Linux. Read now Back in 1992, the idea you could make a business from Linux seemed ...

We often hear from readers who want to track the development process of their favorite Linux distribution but don't know where to start. Budding Linux enthusiasts frequently ask how the release cycles ...

Choice is nothing if not abundant in the world of Linux distributions, but for openSUSE, it’s a defining feature. No fewer than four desktop options come standard with the software’s latest release, ...

The elementary OS Challenge has concluded and it exceeded my expectations. Not only did the Linux community enthusiastically embrace it across multiple podcasts and blogs, but even the elementary OS ...