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RSS bsd in newsMacs versus PCs - the battle continues
News The case for Macs has been building for some time, according to Reginald W who cited Apple's switch to Intel chips, OS X's ability to run "Windows and Linux and Solaris and BSD and whatever else" and the increasing number of apps written for Macs... [18 Jul 2007]
Linux web servers "faster"
News BSD trailed behind at three per cent and Unix at one per cent. Linux-based websites perform better than those hosted on Windows servers, according to new research. WatchMouse, a Dutch firm that monitors server performance, based its research on a... [21 Jun 2007]
Microsoft-backed ODF converter set for launch
News People can download the software, available under the open source BSD licence, for free from SourceForge. A Microsoft-sponsored open source project is expected to today release a translator that will convert file formats between Microsoft Office... [02 Feb 2007]
Redmond has 'road to Damascus' open source conversion
News The software giant on Thursday is expected to launch the Open XML Translator project on SourceForge.net, a popular site for hosting code-sharing projects that use the BSD open source licence. Microsoft said it plans to sponsor an open source... [06 Jul 2006]
Open source overhaul: GPLv3 on the way
News That tenet is absent in other open source licences, such as the BSD-style varieties employed to cover Apache. A major revamp of the General Public License (GPL) is scheduled for public release next week, a move that's expected to kick off a long... [12 Jan 2006]
MySQL worm spread halted
News Unix-like systems, such as Linux and BSD, run server software, including the MySQL database, as a separate user, shielding many critical system functions from exploitation by such a worm. A worm exploiting weak database passwords on Windows... [31 Jan 2005]
Security flaws could corrupt open source databases
News The CVS Project and major Linux and BSD distributions have posted advisories on the issue. Flaws in two popular source code database applications could allow attackers to access and corrupt open-source software projects, according to a security... [20 May 2004]
Paris to dump Microsoft for Linux desktops?
News Paris has already adopted an open-source approach for Lutece, a web-publishing tool used since the end of 2002 by Paris' district councils for creating and administering their internet and intranet sites, and distributed under a BSD-type licence. [12 Feb 2004]
Hacker contest aims for better security
News Each team had to run five web services on a variant of Unix known as BSD. An ethical hacking contest at the annual DefCon conference in Las Vegas is aiming to promote better security practice. The Root Fu contest pits eight teams - including some... [05 Aug 2003]
Windows-based websites gain ground on open source
News The company also noted that the number of sites running on the BSD version of Unix have continued to increase - the only operating system besides Linux and Windows that the survey has found to be on the rise, rather than losing market share, in... [21 Jul 2003]
There's a hole in your Telnet
News IT administrators are being warned to patch operating systems software based on BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) Unix, after a security flaw was uncovered today. Machines running operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD may be... [25 Jul 2001]
Rebol simplifies Web scripting
News The system supports the AmigaOS, BSD, Linux Red Hat, Debian and Slackware, Macintosh, Solaris 2.6 Sparc and Windows 95/86/NT platforms. The man who designed the Amiga operating system, Carl Sassenrath, has launched a Web scripting language to rival... [08 Oct 1998]
