Date: Thu, 25. August 2011 08:04:41

CWmike writes "Developers of the Apache open-source project warned users of the Web server software on Wednesday that a denial-of-service (DoS) tool is circulating that exploits a bug in the program. 'Apache Killer' showed up last Friday in a post to the 'Full Disclosure' security mailing list. The Apache project said it would release a fix for Apache 2.0 and 2.2 in the next 48 hours. All versions in the 1.3 and 2.0 lines are said to be vulnerable to attack. The group no longer supports the older Apache 1.3. 'The attack can be done remotely and with a modest number of requests can cause very significant memory and CPU usage on the server,' Apache said in an advisory. The bug is not new. Michal Zalewski, a security engineer who works for Google, pointed out that he had brought up the DoS exploitability of Apache more than four-and-a-half years ago. In lieu of a fix, Apache offered steps administrators can take to defend their Web servers until a patch is available." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Tue, 9. February 2010 22:25:00

The announcement of high-end servers by IBM and Hewlett-Packard this week won't halt declining Unix server sales as the onslaught of x86 servers continues, analysts said on Tuesday.

Date: Wed, 21. October 2009 15:05:38

Toe, The writes "Today Apple announced several new hardware offerings, including a new Mac mini, their (almost-literally) pint-sized desktop computer. In a bizarre twist, they are now also offering a Mac mini with Mac OS X Server bundled in, along with a two hard drives somehow stuffed into the tiny package. Undoubtedly, many in the IT community will scoff at the thought of calling such a device a 'server.' However, with the robust capabilities of Snow Leopard Server (a true, if highly GUI-fied, UNIX server), it seems likely to find a niche in small businesses and even enthusiasts' homes. The almost completely guided setup process means that people can set up relatively sophisticated services without the assistance of someone who actually knows what they are doing. What the results will be in terms of security, etc. will be... interesting to watch as they develop." El Reg has a good roundup article of the many announcements; the multi-touch Magic Mouse is right up there on the techno-lust-inspiration scale.pa href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/10/20/1833228/Apple-Blurs-the-Server-Line-With-Mac-Mini-Server?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/10/20/1833228"/a/ppa href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/10/20/1833228/Apple-Blurs-the-Server-Line-With-Mac-Mini-Server?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uzsrM8JCmnX2I-j6ZDEx_I9mpaE/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uzsrM8JCmnX2I-j6ZDEx_I9mpaE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uzsrM8JCmnX2I-j6ZDEx_I9mpaE/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uzsrM8JCmnX2I-j6ZDEx_I9mpaE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/wHhvnoUnvzo" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Fri, 5. February 2010 20:40:28

PC World - Microsoft will no longer offer Linux or Unix versions of its enterprise search products after a wave of releases set to ship in the first half of this year, the company announced in an official blog post Thursday.

Date: Thu, 17. December 2009 13:30:00

InfoWorld - The Novell-sponsored Mono Project will announce on Thursday availability of Moonlight 2, an open source browser plug-in that brings to Unix and Linux desktops the capabilities of the Microsoft Silverlight multimedia platform.

Date: Thu, 12. February 2009 00:46:30

InfoWorld - Moonlight 1.0, an open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight rich media application platform, was announced Wednesday for Unix and Linux systems, said Miguel de Icaza, the Novell developer who has been in charge of the project.

Date: Tue, 22. February 2011 08:13:45

GMGruman writes "It's a persistent myth: reboot your Unix box when something goes wrong or to clean it out. Paul Venezia explains why you should almost never reboot a Unix server, unlike say Windows." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Thu, 10. December 2009 15:05:24

dcblogs writes "IBM has released a new mainframe server that doesn't include its z/OS operating system. This Enterprise Linux Server line supports Red Hat or Suse. The system is packaged with mainframe management and virtualization tools. The minimum processor configuration uses two specialty mainframe processors designed for Linux. IBM wants to go after large multicore x86 Linux servers and believes the $212,000 entry price can do it."pa href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/12/09/2329211/IBMs-Newest-Mainframe-Is-All-Linux?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/12/09/2329211"/a/ppa href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/12/09/2329211/IBMs-Newest-Mainframe-Is-All-Linux?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HupR5dhva_7mO8FvJjY9p_orhv8/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HupR5dhva_7mO8FvJjY9p_orhv8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HupR5dhva_7mO8FvJjY9p_orhv8/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HupR5dhva_7mO8FvJjY9p_orhv8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/jHam2a9YSIU" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Wed, 23. July 2008 04:01:00

InfoWorld - Sun is announcing on Wednesday availability of Sun Web Stack, which puts the company???s own twist on the popular open-source LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL Perl/Python or PHP) stack.

Date: Tue, 25. May 2010 23:37:00

Hewlett-Packard knocked IBM from the top spot in worldwide server revenue during the first quarter, as the market for x86 systems picked up but sales of Unix and mainframe systems continued to decline, Gartner said on Tuesday.