Unix Breaking News

IBM brings 5GHz chip to its top-selling Unix server
IBM spruced up its Unix servers on Tuesday with faster processors and new management software, targeting customers who want to use its hardware for virtualization and server consolidation. More..

Linux Foundation plans more open open-source conference
After holding an invitation-only conference for key open-source developers and community members in each of the past two years, the Linux Foundation is expanding its events schedule to add a conference focused on a broader attendee base. More..

Microsoft amassing high-performance server software attack
Microsoft has built a strategy around the planned early-November release of its high-performance computing server that it hopes will be the catalyst to deliver massive computing power for future applications. More..

Developer fixes 33-year-old Unix bug
An OpenBSD developer has discovered and fixed a bug in the software that has been traced back to an AT&T version of Unix from 1975. More..

Sun announces open source Solaris updates
Sun plans on releasing a new version of its open source OpenSolaris operating system every six months, one of which will serve as the basis for the next version of its Solaris Unix operating system, said a company executive. More..

OpenSolaris ready for prime time
Sun Microsystems on Monday will launch a supported version of OpenSolaris at the CommunityOne conference in San Francisco. More..

Microsoft faces challenges in expanding management strategy
Microsoft last week set it sites on becoming a dominant enterprise management vendor, but experts and users say first it will have to define the scope of its goals, improve the platform, and prove it can be the caretaker of non-Windows systems.  More..

Microsoft targets CA, HP with new management attack
LAS VEGAS -- Microsoft Tuesday said it plans to become a major management platform vendor to battle the likes of CA and HP and said it would extend its System Center software to encompass Linux and Unix-based machines. More..

Ubuntu 8.04 released
The latest version of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution was officially released to the public Thursday after the customary beta-test period. This version is designated "LTS," for "long-term support," which should make it attractive to business customers who prefer a longer upgrade cycle for their operating systems. More..

IBM unleashes world's fastest UNIX system
IBM announced two high-end Power System models, claimed to be the world's fastest UNIX server and a unique water-cooled supercomputer. The new systems offer sophisticated IBM virtualization technology and energy-saving capabilities to help reduce bottom-line operating costs, such as those for energy, floor space and systems management, while improving system performance, helping customers transition to a new enterprise data center. More..

IBM updates high-end servers, returns to water-cooling
SAN FRANCISCO -- IBM announced its most powerful Unix server to date Tuesday, an update to the System p5 595 that will be based on a new Power6 processor running at up to 5GHz.  More..

IBM lures HP customers, reuses their abandoned HP gear
IBM's new rebate program for customers who use HP PA-RISC systems coincides with IBM's System p 550 Express Unix server launch. More..

SCO suitor vows to keep up Unix copyright war
The private equity firm that has offered to pump up to $100 million into SCO thinks court rulings against the vendor in its highly publicized Unix copyright lawsuits "don’t make any sense" and it believes those rulings can be reversed on appeal to a higher court. More..

SCO gets $100 million from private equity firm
Embattled SCO Operations Thursday reached an agreement with a private equity firm that plans to provide the vendor as much as $100 million and take SCO private. More..

Trial set to determine what SCO owes Novell
Novell will head to court this April to find out what it is owed, if anything, by SCO, which had been trying to earn royalties from Unix code it did not own. More..

Sun server/storage exec: Virtualization has customers confused
Q&A with Sun's new head of storage and servers looks at Sun's attempt to reverse declining disk revenues, address energy efficiency and deliver storage and server advances. More..

Linux, Unix, Mac, Windows PCs get authentication integration
Centeris, which provides cross-platform authentication via Microsoft's Active Directory, Tuesday enhanced its Likewise platform and an added open source project that will be distributed with the top Linux operating systems. More..

Gartner: x86 servers gain as Unix shipments fall
As adoption of x86 servers increased globally, Unix-based server shipments witnessed a slowdown during the third quarter, a Gartner survey released on Monday said. More..

Windows vs. Unix
Unix backers once snickered about upstart Microsoft making inroads with Windows. Who’s laughing now? More..

Mac OS, Linux probably have URI issues too
This week Microsoft said it would patch Windows to reduce the risk of a new kind of Web-based security vulnerability, but security researchers say that other operating systems are probably at risk too. More..

McBride: Reports of SCO's death greatly exaggerated
If the corporate Grim Reaper is truly knocking on the door of The SCO Group, no one seems to have told Darl McBride, the software vendor's president and CEO. More..

Unix admin pleads guilty to planting logic bomb
A former Unix system administrator at Medco Health Solutions' Fair Lawn, N.J., office on Wednesday pleaded guilty in federal court to attempting to sabotage critical data, including individual prescription drug data, on more than 70 servers. More..

With bankruptcy, SCO now facing Nasdaq delisting
Following its bankruptcy filing, The SCO Group may be booted off of the Nasdaq stock exchange as early as next week, the Unix vendor said Wednesday. More..

SCO says there is 'substantial doubt' it will survive
With its cash reserves running out and its legal case against IBM unraveling, the SCO Group now says there is doubt that it will remain afloat. More..

SCO's Chapter 11 filing postpones Novell trial
SCO Group filed for federal bankruptcy protection Friday, a move that automatically postpones a scheduled trial on software licenses SCO has to pay Novell, which a judge earlier ruled owns the patents to Unix software that SCO had claimed ownership. More..