Date: Mon, 7. June 2010 10:00:00

The recession and uncertainty about vendor plans are sinking Unix server sales, says research firm IDC.

Date: Fri, 13. February 2009 21:30:31

Only technophiles would recognize this event, but at 3:31 PM PST on Friday the 13th, 2009, Unix time will reach 1234567890. Unix time is the number of seconds since the beginning of the "Unix Epoch" at midnight UTC on January 1st, 1970 (not including leap seconds).

Date: Mon, 8. March 2010 20:02:12

IT security company Sense of Security has discovered a serious bug in Apache's HTTP web server, which could allow a remote attacker to gain complete control of a database. by Colin Ho,ZDNet.com.au

Date: Tue, 4. November 2008 15:04:57

An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix has a new article out on Wayland: A New X Server For Linux. One of Red Hat's engineers has started writing a new X11 server around today's needs and to eliminate the cruft that has been in this critical piece of free software for more than a decade. This new server is called Wayland and it is designed with newer hardware features like kernel mode-setting and a kernel memory manager for graphics. Wayland is also dramatically simpler to target for in development. A compositing manager is embedded into the Wayland server and ensures 'every frame is perfect' according to the project's leader."pa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/03/2217216amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/03/2217216"/a/ppa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/03/2217216amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/xQd601gwXE3q0HfNrzba1CQY3oU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/xQd601gwXE3q0HfNrzba1CQY3oU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/EwVqXQJy_pI" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Wed, 4. March 2009 15:04:49

darthcamaro and several other readers have noted that the Linux Foundation has bought Linux.com from Sourceforge Inc. (Slashdot's corporate parent). The Linux Foundation (employer of Linus Torvalds) will take over the editorial and community stewardship for the site; Sourceforge will continue to supply advertising on it. "[Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim] Zemlin says the Linux Foundation wants to build a collaborative forum where Linux users can share ideas and get information on the Linux operating system. A beta of the site will be released in the next few months. ... Linux.com is being redesigned as a central source for Linux software, documentation and answers regardless of platforms, including server, desktop/netbook, mobile and embedded areas." What do you think should be on Linux.com?pa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/03/219243amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/03/03/219243"/a/ppa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/03/219243amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/CLxTu_8gDzTvWXwAFo5An51gxF8/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/CLxTu_8gDzTvWXwAFo5An51gxF8/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/tsnYxQX94ls" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Mon, 18. October 2010 07:32:48

shougyin writes "For years, Linux has enjoyed much of its success as a replacement for Unix. Companies turned to Linux to replace Unix servers, or for new deployments within a Unix-heavy environment. Linux is still king there, but it's starting to encroach on Microsoft as well. Big companies are planning overwhelmingly (76.4%) to add more Linux servers in the next year, and less than half (41.2%) of the companies are planning to add Windows servers in the next year. Even more interesting, nearly half (43.6%) are actively planning to decrease use of Windows servers in the next year." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Mon, 6. October 2008 12:30:00

InfoWorld - Mono 2.0, an open-source runtime enabling .Net-based applications to run on Linux, Mac OS X, and Unix, is being released Monday, featuring capabilities for a number of .Net technologies.

Date: Thu, 14. August 2008 15:05:23

Chad_Wollenberg writes "Anyone who has used a derivative of Unix over the past 20 years has used Bash, which stands for Borne Again Shell. The geek in all of us makes us want to extend our ability to rule the command line. To truly master a Unix environment, you need to know a shell, and Bash is easily the most popular of them. Any Unix/Linux/BSD administrator knows the power at your fingertips is fully extended by what you can do within the Bash environment, and all of us need the best recipes to get the job done." Keep reading for the rest of Chad's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Mon, 22. November 2010 22:36:51

jfruhlinger writes "Word came down this morning that when Attachmate bought Novell, certain intellectual property rights were sold to a Microsoft-led consortium as part of the deal. Since Unix is the most valuable piece of IP Novell owns, there was a certain amount of panic that suddenly Redmond is in charge of this foundational technology for Linux and a number of other open source projects. But, while MS is being cagey, Brian Proffitt doubts that Unix was part of the IP package that was sold — and believes that Linux would be safe even if it were." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Wed, 25. August 2010 19:52:00

Demand for Windows and Linux servers is increasing at a rapid pace, at the expense of Unix servers and other non-x86 machines, according to IDC.