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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every three years I install Linux and see if it is ready for prime time yet, and every three years I am disappointed. What is so disappointing is not so much that the operating system is bad, it has ...

The open source movement has a full head of steam, and it certainly looks like Linux has found a home in the enterprise. Some of the industry’s most powerful vendors came to the LinuxWorld Conference ...

Linux and the open-source community has quietly slipped into corporate IT through back doors and half-open windows over the years and has established a meaningful presence on low-end servers. Now the ...

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 ...

Is Linux ready for the corporate desktop? Join Computerworld‘s online discussion and share your views. With the proven success of Linux-based servers for mission-critical business applications, many ...