Although Linux runs almost every supercomputer, most of the web, the majority of smart phones, and a few writers’ ancient Macbooks, there’s one major weak point in the Linux world that … ...

IBM’s System/38 and AS/400 minicomputers had a relational database at the heart of the operating system and in fact the database was the only file system allowed on these machines from 1978 through ...

The open-source software community broadly includes both individual programmers and companies such as Red Hat Inc., which gives away a Linux-based operating system software and makes money from ...

The first thing to understand about Linux is that there is no single Linux operating system but rather a Linux kernel that’s used as the core of many different operating systems. (A kernel is the core ...