Cloud computing and security drive increasing adoption of Linux among the largest enterprises

These technologies are competing to provide the best way to patch the Linux kernel without reboots or downtime

A list of 5 popular Ubuntu derivatives along with a brief description. Distributions are selected based on their ranking in distrowatch

Yesterday we looked at the Windows vs. Ubuntu 14.10 Intel OpenGL performance using Haswell HD Graphics to kick off our latest round of Windows vs. Linux OpenGL driver benchmarking. Out today is now our NVIDIA GeForce graphics card comparison on Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.10 using the latest NVIDIA binary drivers. NVIDIA's new GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 980 Maxwell graphics cards were tested as well as the mature GTX 780 Ti.

If you doubt that Linux is the king of operating systems, check this out: 300,000 students signed up for a new edX class on Linux in August.

Come April 2016, Intel 32-bit users might be on their last, overdue leg for upgrading their distribution. Proposal to kill off the 32-bit install (ISO) images after that point while support for 32-bit applications on 64-bit Ubuntu would still be supported is considered. The proposal would only involve Intel/AMD x86 with 32-bit ARM being unaffected given that 32-bit ARM is still very common to devices.

Security is a big concern for users of container technologies, but Ubuntu, with Docker and LXC, thinks it has a solution.

Ars looks back at the decade in Ubuntu, from Warty Warthog to 25 million users worldwide.

Canonical's latest Linux, Ubuntu 14.10, saves the biggest improvements for its cloud and server versions.

A small description on some of widely used open source download managers for windows GNU/Linux, android and Mac OSX. Kget, Wget, Uget, FDM and more.

The new Linux Foundation certification exams are proving to be very popular, but very tough.

Can you imagine about an operating system with 15MB size now a days? There exist such an operating system. Here you can read about 5 smallest and active GNU/Linux projects.

The audacious Ubuntu Edge smartphone may have fizzled out, but Ubuntu Touch lives on--and it just hit 'release to manufacturing' status.

We saw last month just how close native Netflix support for Linux is to arriving. Now Netflix wants to go one step further...

Native Netflix Linux playback is reported to be working in beta builds of Google Chrome — no Wine-based app or PPA required.

Ubuntu 14.10 is a minor, but significant, step up from Canonical's last Linux desktop operating system, Ubuntu 14.04.

The first point release of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS has been made available for download.

The latest release of the popular Cinnamon desktop environment is once again available for Ubuntu users to install. Here's how to make it rock.

Review: Long-term support and stability plus tweaks for desktop? Delicious!