Aside from their highly customizable nature and lack of privacy-intrusive services, live boot is one of the best features of Linux distributions. After all, the ability to boot into a random distro ...

Kevin Pedretti, lead researcher for Sandia National Laboratories’ virtual external operating system program, uses his laptop computer to inspect a virtual machine experiment running on Sandia’s Red ...

In the past five years, server virtualization has grown from a niche concept adopted by only the largest and bravest enterprises into an indispensable part of everyday datacenter operations. Yet ...

Software distribution is taking an interesting turn with virtual appliances, which combine an application and underlying operating system. If you have ever had the experience of trying out a new ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Throughout the ’90s, an IT buyer looking to add storage and other services to his company’s network simply bought more servers. Operating system-specific network clients and applications made ...