No matter if users had dozens, or thousands, of CPU cores in their cloud, most preferrred Ubuntu. It was followed by the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone CentOS, which is now part of the Red Hat ...

elementary OS is based on Ubuntu LTS releases and was first introduced in 2011. From its early days to the present, elementary OS has retained a similar design scheme, and for those who know it, ...

ZDNET's key takeaways Both Fedora and Ubuntu are great Linux distributions.Each distribution has a lot to offer various user types.Both are free to download and use. The first Linux distribution I ...

Ubuntu unveiled Snappy Ubuntu Core today -- a new, lightweight version of the OS that offers a barebones platform combined with cloud-based application hosting. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

Ubuntu Server, on the other hand, doesn’t behave like it’s trying to box you in. It feels like a real operating system for ...

2013 seems like an odd time to talk about a brand new smartphone operating system, but that's just what we got yesterday from Ubuntu, a popular indie operating system for PCs that is making its way to ...

As more and more attention is devoted to the internet of things and the multitude of different devices that will soon be internet enabled, there is a corresponding rush to build the systems and ...

Canonical, the company that makes Linux-based operating system Ubuntu, announced new software coming to Android phones that will turn smartphones into computers. Ubuntu is free software that is an ...

Making a single operating system work on smartphones, tablets, laptops, and TVs is a tricky proposition. You can’t just scale a mobile OS up or a desktop OS down; you have to build software that is ...

CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has covered everything from HDTVs to computers to Flowbee Haircut Systems. Besides his work with CNET, Don's work has been featured in a ...