Microsoft taking lessons from Linux A Microsoft exec says his company has learned to listen more closely to programmers and it has revised its server line due to its heated competition with Linux.

OS vendors must patch systems fully, ensure correct permission configuration and make use of additional security layers to protect users.

In a two-part series, Computerworld investigates the role of Linux and open source software in education institutions in Australia and North America. In this, Part 1, Computerworld spoke with the ...

Linux lessons learned Based on Viata's experience, a few key points emerge with regard to rolling out Linux in the enterprise: ...

If you’ve been meaning to try out Linux but felt too overwhelmed, we’ve got all the info you need to get started. Here are our five lessons on getting a working Linux partition up and running ...

Many users who try Linux for the first time can get confused easily as their is no readily apparent help system available to them. As Windows programs are typically graphical in nature, it is not ...

The SCO Group's copyright case may have done little to discourage enterprise Linux use, but the next generation of legal conflicts around open source have only begun, experts said Monday.

In fact, they're saving the former "Linux company's" butt. What's more, those relationships give SCO a big advantage over Red Hat, SuSE and other Linux companies that still have nothing comparable to ...