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The open-source Linux operating system is widely deployed across modern enterprises, and a new study sponsored by enterprise vendor SUSE Linux aims to reveal precisely what workloads Linux is running.

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Until the 2000s, game consoles existed primarily to bring a bit of the gaming arcade experience to homes, providing graphical ...

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...

A recently discovered Linux malware with backdoor capabilities has flown under the radar for years, allowing attackers to harvest and exfiltrate sensitive information from compromised devices. The ...

News briefs for July 1, 2019. Linux is now used more than Windows on Azure. According to ZDNet, Microsoft Linux kernel developer Sasha Levin revealed that "the Linux usage on our cloud has surpassed ...

Linux will work on just about any PC. I mean that literally. Remember the Intel Pentium 4 processor? It came out in 2000, and it's still supported by Debian Linux. That said, Linux runs better on some ...