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Eight years after the Gnome 2 desktop was replaced by Gnome 3, the older desktop environment remains one of the most used interfaces on desktop Linux.

Last year he thought smartphones and servers were five and 10 years away, respectively, but he's had to "pull in his targets."

The recently announced Urban Computing Foundation might be a sleeper that will have a big positive impact on data center operators.

The continuous delivery software that's been doing the heavy lifting on IBM's global Kubernetes platform is now open source.

One of the four security vulnerabilities recently discovered by streaming giant Netflix will throw a server into a Linux kernel panic.

Making the effort to learn to use the powerful style tools in LibreOffice Writer will save you time in the long run, while freeing you up to concentrate on your writing.

It emerged as a force in the silicon market last year, and its been gaining momentum ever since.

The founder of the privacy respecting version of Android, /e/, says the time is right for phone makers to adopt an operating system that isn’t dependent on a single company.

The debate over whether KDE or GNOME is the better Linux desktop has been going on since before the turn of the century. Actually, it boils down to choice and what works best for you.

At Red Hat Summit, ITPro Today sat down with Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst and talked about life after the IBM merger, hybrid cloud and the competition.

The latest and greatest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ships with new features that will make routine administration tasks easier for DevOps teams, while clearing a path for hybrid cloud deployments.

Red Hat and IBM executive leadership used Tuesday's keynote to reassure customers that Red Hat would remain Red Hat.

The unveiling of RHEL 8 would normally steal the show at Red Hat Summit, but this year the deal with IBM may overshadow that announcement.

Diversity in tech was front and center at DockerCon's second day, as CEO Steve Singh announced the Docker Foundation to promote workplace diversity.

Today the beta version of Docker Enterprise 3.0 was unveiled at DockerCon during the morning keynote from Docker CEO Steve Singh.

Docker security took a hit last week -- right before its annual developer and customer event -- with the news that a database in its Docker Hub repository for container images had been hacked.

A couple of decades ago Gael Duval was a household name in Linux circles, even if he wasn’t quite as well known as Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond, or Bruce Perens. Duval was the founder of what many consider to be the first user-friendly Linux distro, Mandrake, and as one of three co-founders of the French company MandrakeSoft, around the turn of the century brought the distro to something akin to rock star status among Linux users.

Docker and Arm have announced a partnership that will allow containerized applications for Arm to the developed on x86 hardware.

Many of the issues associated with container technology are due to infrastructure decisions made long before containers, cloud and the internet even existed.

With or without the nod to GNU, desktop Linux is still the same under the hood.