Author: Steven Vaughan Nichols

Red Hat announced on April 24 that it will be acquiring MetaMatrix, a company that specializes in data access software and services, in an effort

Anyone who follows Linux at all knows that Ubuntu is currently the Linux community’s favorite distribution. But can Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, translate that

Web hosting company Verio chose a lucky day to introduce its new Linux-based managed private server offering for small businesses. The day before, April 17,

What operating system do the heads of Fortune 500 companies run on their personal laptops? In the case of Michael S. Dell, president and CEO

Now that Debian 4.0, Etch, has finally arrived, what do people make of it? Out in the blogosphere, some users like it. Over at Jed’s

At long last, the Debian project team released Debian GNU/Linux Version 4.0—code-named Etch—on April 8. The release follows “21 months of constant development,” according to

It sounds unlikely, but Novell and Sun Microsystems have partnered to bring SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 to Sun’s Ultra Workstations: the Sun Ultra 20,

The good news, according to an HP executive, is that the company sees “the Linux desktop nearing critical mass.” The bad news, for would be

It’s hard to say exactly what’s happening with Novell’s earnings, while it continues to audit its past stock-option practices. Still, while awaiting the results from