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Linux is as secure as ever. The real security hole lies with some of Linux's administrators and users....

The next version of Red Hat's Software Collections package includes Apache httpd and Nginx Web servers, Ruby 2.0, and NoSQL database MongoDB. They are all part of version 1.1 of Software Collections, a beta of which can now be downloaded , Red Hat said in a blog post Thursday. ...

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Cyber criminals are using sophisticated malware in compromising thousands of Unix-based servers to spew spam and redirect a half million Web users to malicious content per day, a security firm reported. Dubbed Operation Windigo, the attack has been ongoing for more than two and a half years and has compromised as many as 25,000 servers at one time, anti-virus vendor ESET said Tuesday. Systems infected...

If you aren't already familiar with Docker, you should be. It's a lean, clean way to take your app from development to production , says InfoWorld's Peter Wayner. ...

Cloudera today announced that it has secured $160 million in new financing to advance its distribution of the open source Hadoop big data platform. The move brings the company's total funding up to $300 million and reflects how bullish investors are on the Hadoop platform being a major tool for companies to handle their data in the future. ...

At Google's Pwnium hacking competition, two new security exploits in Chrome OS were demonstrated, while at Pwn2Own a Chrome Web browser problem was found that also impacted Chrome OS. All three problems have now been patched....

Lots of operating systems run on the OpenStack cloud, but Ubuntu Linux is most users' favorite....

Windows XP's refugees have two choices on April 8, when Microsoft stops supporting the decade-old operating system ( for consumers , anyway). This is assuming a new PC with a new operating system (even Windows 7 ) is, for whatever reason, out of the question. ...

Wait, isn't the Linux desktop dead? As I observed last year , it all depends on how you define it. ...

Fedora 21, the next version of Red Hat's Fedora distribution of Linux, just received a slew of new feature approvals courtesy of the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee. ...

In the space of barely a year, Docker's gone from a novelty to a near-cornerstone of the Linux application world....

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Based on the open-source ownCloud Community Edition, ownCloud 6 Enterprise Edition offers the cloud's flexibility with on-premise business data control....

Containers aren't quite virtual machines, but with recent advances in Linux, they can do many of the same jobs as a VM while using far less memory....

From the Cheaper or Better dept.: A new tipping point in the world of tablets: today the analysts at Gartner have released their tablet sales numbers for 2013, and Android has topped the list for the most popular platform for the first time, outselling Apple™s range of iPad tablets nearly twofold. Of the 195 million tablets sold in 2013, Android took nearly 62% of sales on 121 million tablets, while...

Microsoft just open-sourced a software development kit that will enable Android developers to bring Office 365 data to their Android apps....

Red Hat is best known for its RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) distribution, but the company has been making a big push into cloud computing with its ...

Xen, the open-source virtualization project, believes that ARM has a big role to play in the server and datacenter space, so it's adding support to more ARM chipsets....