Networking is the last bastion of proprietary systems, but Cumulus Networks sees a near future where Linux powers network hardware by default Everywhere you look, change is afoot in computer ...

Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking gear.

In the not-too-distant past, network operating systems (NOS) pretty much meant one thing: a Novell NetWare server for managing files and printers on a local area network. For some government agencies, ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pica8®, Inc., the leader in open systems for software defined networking (SDN), today announced a new initiative to simplify adoption of Linux-based network ...

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An operating system is the essential software that's needed to run your computer's suite of software. Everything from video ...

Developers talk a lot about “immutability.” Outside the technical world, it usually means something negative: unmoving, inflexible, and entrenched. However, in the technical field, these features ...