Unix

Thu, April 12, 2012 - Given the vast numbers of Macs that are apparently infected with the Flashback Trojan malware, it's not at all surprising to see that sales of Mac security software are now skyrocketing.

Sun, March 25, 2012 - Do yourself a favor and stick with Linux servers. The desktop OS market is a two-horse race, and Linux was not invited to the party

Fri, March 09, 2012 - The announcement this week that chipmaker Nvidia is among the latest crop of companies to join the Linux Foundation is a sign of the growing importance of open source to the business sector -- and a reversal for a firm that, traditionally, hasn't been counted among the stalwarts of that community.

Wed, February 29, 2012 - Thanks to a Google Summer of Code project, Minix has gotten an infusion of NetBSD commands and libraries

Wed, February 22, 2012 - ServiceKey and DLT Federal Business Systems Corporation are named in Oracle's complaint

Thu, December 15, 2011 - Enterprises can now run user compliance reports against Sudo

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.