Enterprises considering Linux as an alternative desktop to Microsoft Windows often believe they have some essential Win32 applications or tools that prevent them from making the switch. I have seen ...

Authentication is a mechanism that verifies whether an entity is who it claims to be. On a Linux system, applications, such as su, passwd or login, are used to authenticate users before they are given ...

Business services supporting Linux and open-source applications have attained mainstream status in Western Europe, according to a new report from IDC. The report released Thursday said that businesses ...

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Microsoft has partnered with Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company, and Hortonworks, a major developer of the Hadoop program. Hadoop enables distributed processing of big data over commodity server ...

Microsoft has introduced LiteBox, a Rust-based sandboxing library OS that has enabled secure, low-overhead Linux app isolation on Windows without full VMs.