Thu, December 08, 2011 - Dartmouth researchers are working on variants of diff and grep that can parse more complex data structures

Wed, November 09, 2011 - The newest version of Oracle's Solaris operating system is better prepared for cloud workloads, the company claims

Thu, October 13, 2011 - Dennis Ritchie, the software developer who brought the world the C programming language and Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70.

Fri, July 22, 2011 - Bucking standard conventions in software versioning, Linux Torvalds has designated the new release of the Linux operating system kernel, posted Friday, as version 3.0, even while maintaining that the release is only a routine update.

Mon, June 20, 2011 - Researchers at the PlanetLab global research network have developed a potential replacement for the widely used Unix sudo tool, called Vsys, that will offer administrators far greater control over what end users can and can't access.

Mon, June 06, 2011 - The public key encryption scheme developed by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman in the mid-1970s - and influenced by the work of Ralph Merkle - has now made them all pretty darn famous some three-plus decades later: All three have been inducted in 2011 into the Computer History Museum Hall of Fellows and the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Thu, May 05, 2011 - The National Security Agency (NSA) recently published a report, "Best Practices for Keeping Your Home Network Secure" (PDF) in which it makes numerous recommendations designed to help home computer users avoid malware and other common problems.

Wed, April 20, 2011 - The DOJ limits Microsoft's purchase of Novell patents.

Wed, April 20, 2011 - The DOJ limits Microsoft's purchase of Novell patents.

Wed, April 20, 2011 - The DOJ limits Microsoft's purchase of Novell patents.

Wed, April 20, 2011 - The server edition of Ubuntu 11.04, "Natty Narwhal" gets an updated set of cloud support tools

Wed, April 20, 2011 - Fedora 15 offers the new Gnome desktop interface and an enhanced boot process

Wed, April 06, 2011 - The Linux Foundation on Wednesday kicked off what will be several months of celebrations in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Linux operating system with a range of festivities and events as well as key news announcements from three of its working groups.

Wed, March 16, 2011 - Linux kernel 2.6.28 has been released, bringing performance improvements