On the server and on the desktop, these apps helped showcase what Linux can do.

One of the defining characteristics of Unix is modularity – the operating system shell provides a set of small and flexible utilities (such as grep, sed and awk) that can be “glued” together to ...

How to install the Caddy web server on Ubuntu Server 22.04 Your email has been sent If you're looking for a lightweight, flexible web server for static sites, web ...

Open-source advocate Bruce Perens has launched an initiative to discourage owners of undeveloped Web domains from hosting them on servers running proprietary software. Perens wants domain owners and ...

"Apache's Web server has become the de-facto standard for anyone who is serious about delivering Web content on an open-source platform," says Tristan Louis, a New York-based developer. "I did have to ...

Although the term "open source" didn’t arrive until the late 1990s, the principle has been around since programming really took off in the 50s and 60s. Early developers shared their code and protocol ...

Bob Gatewood needed more control. The chief technology officer at Athena Healthcare was sick of multiple databases that contained the same customer record. He wanted to tightly integrate the company's ...

Catch-22 describes the problem of small businesses interested in open-source software. These companies, which most need affordable solutions, are least likely to find information on open-source ...

The Santa Barbara, Calif., company said it has begun shipping Progression Web, a platform that automates data migration from Microsoft IIS servers to the Apache open-source Web server running on ...