Linux is making real gains on the desktop. New data shows its market share passing 5% in the U.S., signaling a long-awaited ...

Linux is not a real-time operating system (RTOS), meaning that it can’t respond to requests in the real world within a set timeframe.

In a way, you really need to think of DBOS as a competitor to Linux, Windows Server, or Unix but to the AWS Lambda serverless function as a service stack. Stonebraker and Zaharia do: One last thing.

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 ...

An article last Sunday about the Linux operating system Ubuntu, using information from its maker, Canonical, referred erroneously to Ubuntu’s market prevalence.