MEMPHIS, TENN. – FedEx Freight recently put a new face on its Web operations, and so far the company likes what it sees. The large-volume trucking division of FedEx recently installed 15 Red Hat Linux ...

When someone buys a new smartphone, often they're preoccupied with the camera specs or the size of the screen or its storage capabilities. It's easy to overlook one of the most foundational aspects of ...

Effort is under way to get virtualization into the Linux kernel, so it can catch up with rival OSes in server efficiency. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

From start to finish: What can you do with a Linux server? Your email has been sent How to host multiple websites on Linux with Apache: Premium How to create a database server on Linux to be used on ...

Linux sales and service company Red Hat has released a new $995 version of its Stronghold software designed for large businesses. Stronghold, a variant of the Apache Web server software used to host ...

The Basics of Linux & Windows : Linux (and its close relation Unix) and Windows 2000 (and its close cousin Windows NT) are types of software (known as operating systems) that web servers use to do the ...

On August 25, 1991, a Finnish computer science student named Linus Torvalds announced a new project. "I'm doing a (free) operating system," he wrote on an Internet messaging system, insisting this ...

When I write my column, I try to stick to specific hacks or tips you can use to make life with Linux a little easier. Usually, I describe with pretty specific detail how to accomplish a particular ...

I will turn down free beer software in favor of freedom software when both exist. If you don't know the difference, that's OK. You cannot see the source code for the video drivers from ATI, for ...