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RSS unix in newsWindows Server floating onto Amazon's cloud
News Starting sometime this autumn, Amazon said customers of its EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) service will be able to run Windows, in addition to the Unix-based options currently available. Amazon said on Wednesday that it... [02 Oct 2008]
Sun goes for virtualisation x-factor
News Although the product is free to download, support for the new application - including access to patches and training - costs $500 per physical server per year.xVM is built to work on Windows, Linux and Unix operating... [11 Sep 2008]
ISO rejects latest OOXML appeals
News The UK Unix and Open Systems User Group (UKUUG), whose application for a judicial review into the decision was rejected by a High Court judge at the start of June, still intends to follow through with its appeal against... [19 Aug 2008]
Hardware defies economic gloom
News Linux-based systems are a beneficiary of this trend, thanks to the move away from high-end Unix systems to x86-based systems. But, for servers, the Unix market is still dominated by Sun, added Rasit.... [02 Jul 2008]
Open source group fights OOXML standard
News At the end of April, the UK Unix and Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) applied for a judicial review of the British Standards Institution's (BSI's) decision to vote 'yes' in an international vote on whether to standardise... [23 Jun 2008]
OpenOffice 3.0 beta gets an airing
News Version 3.0 will be the first to run on Mac OS X using the standard Aqua user interface, rather than relying on the Unix windowing software X11, and will add partial support for Visual Basic for Applications on Mac OS X,... [09 May 2008]
OOXML row continues
News The British Standards Institution has been taken to court by a group of Unix users in an attempt to get the standards body to recant its approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format. [02 May 2008]
Apple's Tiger and Leopard get patched up
News This includes several flaws that could lead to a remote attacker executing malicious code on a Mac in programs like Address Book, the Safari browser's RSS feed and CUPS (common Unix printing system), among other things. [18 Dec 2007]
Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP...
News Only an option for 'other Unix' gained fewer votes, being first choice for a marginal one per cent of readers. In a fight between a penguin and a leopard which one wins? The leopard of course - but when it comes to... [13 Nov 2007]
HP hunts for ancient HP-UX systems
News HP has extended the deadline in its hunt to find the UK's oldest HP-UX installation. The vendor has launched the competition to mark the fact that the operating system has now been around for 20 years. [25 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... [21 Jun 2007]
Apple's Safari coming to Windows PCs
News They could previously create 64-bit applications for the Unix code base that's underneath Mac OS X but Apple is now extending 64-bit support to the Cocoa development environment, allowing developers to create native... [12 Jun 2007]
$100 laptop exec blasts desktop security
News Krstić said programs such as Minesweeper have the ability to affect other programs because of a premise that dates back to 1971, when the first version of Unix was released by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, and... [21 May 2007]
Sun's Solaris to get that Linux feeling?
News Sun has been trying for years to restore the lustre of Solaris, a version of Unix that peaked in popularity in the late 1990s but has since faced a strong challenge chiefly from Linux. Linux and Solaris are cousins that... [10 May 2007]
Sun touts 'Logical' Solaris update
News Sun Microsystems has updated its Solaris operating system with a feature that lets its newest Sparc-based servers run multiple copies of the Unix variant in separate partitions. The feature catches Sun partway up with... [16 Jan 2007]
