DBOS Inc., a new startup led by prominent computer scientists, launched today with $8.5 million in seed funding and an operating system designed to challenge Linux. Engine Ventures led the investment.

Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there ...

Linux (come on, you knew it’d be Linux) takes a different approach: no locks, no guardrails, no limits. That’s what makes Linux a real operating system, something its competitors, dwarfing it in ...

I joyfully reunited with my first Linux distro at the Virtual OS Museum ...

Using Ubuntu Linux to import and edit photos from a digital camera. By J. D. Biersdorfer Companies are starting to see the advantages of being able to do large amounts of computing with technology ...

Jack Wallen takes a look at what’s coming in the next release of the open-source Ubuntu Linux operating system. This release is all about subtlety, so if you blink, you might miss something. Ah, the ...