Developers love containers. They’re easy to use and fast to start. You can run a lot of them on even simple hardware. Startup overhead has always been a bane of development and testing, and this ...

Before buying a Mac and switching full-time to Apple’s platform, I had already deserted Windows for Linux. To this day, I’ve always got at least one Linux distro ready to go on my Mac in a virtual ...

I will show that it's possible to install, configure, and use this Linux distribution with absolutely no command-line access. Read now Chromebook users may soon have a simpler way to run their ...

Ubuntu maintainer Canonical and Microsoft have teamed up to release an optimized Ubuntu Desktop image that's available through Microsoft's Hyper-V gallery. The Ubuntu Desktop image should deliver a ...

Organizations can now use their Azure Active Directory credentials to log into a Linux-based virtual machine (VM) running on Microsoft's Azure public cloud service. The new capability is available via ...

Mention containers, and the first word that comes to mind these days is “Docker.” But container technology is far bigger than Docker alone, and it covers more use cases than simply delivering and ...

Linux enthusiasts might think the idea of running a Linux virtual machine on Microsoft's Azure service is like finding a penguin sun tanning in the Sahara. Linux in the heart of the Microsoft cloud?