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The latest record for the value of pi, all 2.7-trillion digits of it, was set by a software engineer working with a home PC running Red Hat Fedora Linux.

Even in bad times, IT shops want Linux experts.

2009 was another good year for Linux; let's take a trip down memory lane.

In the past ten-years, Linux has gone from being an operating system for geeks to being everyone's operating system.

In today's podcast: Intel launches new Atom for netbooks; Red Hat will not support Itanium in Enterprise Linux 6; and Google loses book search case in Paris.

Red Hat hasn't had much interest in the Linux desktop market in years, but the open-source release of SPICE makes it clear that that's about to change.

The world's biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is up and running with Linux in charge.

If you like Red Hat Linux, but you'd rather not pay Red Hat's prices, boy, do some other companies want to talk to you.

When it comes to sheer, unadorned speed, nothing else even comes close to Linux.

Linux isn't for fanboys anymore -- it's for IT.

Not sure about Windows 7? Here are five of the best, not to mention free, Linux desktop alternatives.

Microsoft will get the headlines tomorrow with the release of Windows 7, but, on the server side of life, Red Hat is quietly becoming a dominant player.

I love the Linux desktop, but facts are facts. Linux only holds a niche of the greater desktop market. Part of the reason is Microsoft's monopoly, but it's not just the Evil Empire that's kept Linux down -- Linux has done a lot of self-damage.

What do Microsoft, Red Hat, and Canonical all have in common? Disliking software patents.

Proprietary software has the market share, but recent financial results indicate that open-source software is where the profits will be coming in the future.