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Mozilla has selected Chris Beard, who started with the company with the release of Firefox 1.0, to be its chief executive.

Does Tizen have a future, or is it going to be another unlaunched Linux-based mobile operating system?

Unlike Windows or Mac OS X, Linux offers a wide variety of desktop environments. Here are my picks of the most important of these PC interfaces.

Oracle has released its clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Turning its back on Microsoft Office's native formats, the UK government has adopted the Open Document Format for all its sharable documents.

Only months after acquiring Inktank, Ceph's parent company, Red Hat has released the next version of this open source, distributed storage system.

Some hits and some misses as Canonical tries to cover everything from the smartphone to the desktop to the cloud

The popular Linux desktop has its first major renovation in over six years.

'Open source gives us brand permission to enter a ton of categories,' said Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst.

CodeWeavers latest CrossOver has many improvements, one of which is that it makes it easier than ever to install Windows applications on Linux.

Red Hat's latest release underscores just how important OpenStack is to the Linux giant's future

There was a time when Firefox was the number two web browser, but those days may never come back. When you take a look at Net Applications' web desktop browser market share reports over the long run two things stand out. One, there's the rise of Google's Chrome to second place, and two, Mozilla's Firefox's steep decline.

The "official" Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone CentOS is releasing its next major version today.

DistroWatch, one of the most popular Linux desktop sites, stumbled over the 4th of July.

Long before people were talking about the Internet of Things, Linux-based home automation systems were available. Here are some of today's most interesting Linux-powered home gadgets.

Container-type virtualisation, including software from Docker, looks promising but it has still to carve out a role, according to Red Hat platform business chief Jim Totton.

At June 2014's Linux Enterprise User Summit on Wall Street, Alan Clark, SUSE's director of industry initiatives and open source and chairman of the OpenStack Foundation, explained why and how to deploy open-source clouds in your business.

Want a small office/home office cloud to call your own? OwnCloud may be all the cloud you need.

Can Google's Rebel Alliance of Android and Chrome OS finally dent Microsoft's Windows Evil Empire? I expect we'll see this desktop operating system war start in late 2014.

The latest list of the fastest supercomputers in the world is out -- and not only does Linux rule, it's almost eliminated all of its competition.