Chris Stone, Novell's vice chairman and a key leader of its transformation into a Linux company, resigned from the company Thursday. Novell declined to comment on the reasons for Stone's departure.

As the No. 1 dog in the Linux market, Red Hat gets most of the attention when it makes big moves, such as its fairly recent decision to back OpenStack and reaching the $1 billion milestone. But the ...

Depending who you ask, you’ll get a different answer about who’s winning the operating system wars. Of course, the Linux people think they’ve won, but here’s the thing–they may be right. Speaking to ...

The insertion of a backdoor into code used by most Linux distributions was discovered and fixed ‘before it posed a significant risk to the broader Linux community,’ says Red Hat’s Vincent Danen. The ...

There are a few possible answers to this, but in the particular case where one shell script calls another program or script at the end, the answer is easy. Use exec: #!/bin/bash # Do stuff here ... # ...

Despite its claim to own 42 patents used in the creation of the Linux kernel and hundreds more embedded in other free software programs, Microsoft does not plan to take a page from The SCO Group and ...

Software pioneer Bill Gates always wanted a PC on every desk in the world, but we aren't quite sure he envisioned it happening like this. In much the same way as the cellphone industry took off in the ...

Look for personal computer users to soon get their hardware in the same way that they get their cell phones: for free as part of telecommunications service subscriptions, the executive director of the ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Microsoft exec Scott Hanselman has fired back at critics who accused the company of "cheating" over its Windows 11 speed boost feature, defending the ...

What else would Novell do if their Linux play fails? The corporation might survive as a small integrator of complex networking products (and possibly be scooped up by one of the defense contractors), ...