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• OpenSolaris: Shows Promise, Needs Work 19 hours, 56 minutes ago
  
  Last week, on my country's Liberation Day, Sun released OpenSolaris 2008.05, the much awaited first official fruit of Project Indiana. It delivers many of OpenSolaris' major features, such as DTrace, ZFS, containers, and more, in a Linux distribution-like package. The goal is to allow more people to experience Solaris. A few reviews have since hit the web.
• Unison - file synchronization tool 3 days, 21 hours ago
  
  Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other. Unison shares a number of features with tools such as configuration management packages (CVS, PRCS, Subversion, BitKeeper, etc.),distributed filesystems (Coda, etc.), uni-directional mirroring utilities (rsync, etc.), and other synchronizers (Intellisync,Reconcile, etc).
• Reports on the Last Day of the Trial in Novell v. SCO - Updated 3Xs 1 week, 4 days ago
  
  Well, friends, the trial in Novell v. SCO is done. The judge will render a decision as soon as possible. Here's Chris Brown's first quick note. And we have a report from a new eyewitness. Today's last witness for SCO was Andrew Nagle.
• Enterprise Unix Roundup: Decoding Sun's OS Plans 4 weeks ago
  
  If you've been wondering which operating system Sun Microsystems is going to place its bets on, you can stop now. Go do something more constructive because as far as I'm concerned, the answer is crystal-clear: When faced with a choice between Solaris and Linux, Sun will always choose ... both.
• Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits 2 months, 1 week ago
  
  Adopt 10 good habits that improve your UNIX command line efficiency - and break away from bad usage patterns in the process. This article takes you step-by-step through several good, but too often neglected, techniques for command-line operations. Learn about common errors and how to overcome them, so you can learn exactly why these UNIX habits are worth picking up.
• SCO CEO likely will be forced out of job 2 months, 1 week ago
  
  Darl McBride said Monday he regrets that he is being pushed out as CEO of The SCO Group software company but not his decision to sue IBM and Novell, lawsuits that led to the company's bankruptcy and ultimately his departure.
• SCO Investor Hints at Settlements 2 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  "We don't view ourselves as being in the litigation business," said investor Stephen Norris. "We'd like to find a way to resolve the current situation in a manner that balances a lot of people's interests and allows us to build a business and not focus on paying enormous amounts of money to lawyers."
• Trademark policy dispute causes friction in OpenSolaris community 2 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Dissatisfaction has surfaced in the OpenSolaris community in the wake of a trademark policy dispute that raises questions about the project's autonomy and the nature of Sun's role as the project's sponsor and facilitator. This emerging conflict adds to existing friction within the nascent community and reflects the challenges that participants will face as development moves forward.
• Partners fund SCO Group's next lease on life 3 months ago
  
  Stephen Norris & Co. Capital Partners said Thursday it and unnamed Middle Eastern partners will fund The SCO Group with up to $100 million to take over the financially beleaguered Unix company, move it out of bankruptcy protection, complete its controversial and unsuccessful Linux litigation, and take it private.
• What SCOsource was for, Part II 3 months ago
  
  In the first part of this article on what SCOsource was for, I showed you the January 2003 version of the SCO press release announcing the new division to be called SCOsource, which said the first offering from SCOsource was a license for unbundled use of SCO OpenServer and UnixWare shared libraries.
• What SCOsource was for 3 months ago
  
  I think I've finally figured out what SCOsource was for. I've been reading Novell's Motion for Summary Judgment on its 4th Claim for Relief and looking over the exhibits that SCO attached to the Brent Hatch Declaration in support of its sealed opposition to it, trying to understand both parties' positions, and I think neither has the story exactly right yet. So I thought it might be worthwhile to lay out all the evidence I could about SCOsource. That involves quite a few screenshots and links, so this will be a multi-part article. Part I will simply explain the difference between Unix Sys V and Unixware, such as it is and according to how I understand it, because we need to understand that in order to follow the twists and turns of the SCOsource offerings.
• Leopard Server: The people's Unix 3 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Apple's desktop Macs are incomparably well suited for the full range of uses from general productivity to technical and creative design, with the entire user skill and requirements spectrum covered by a rich, engaging, intuitive platform. It took Apple several years to get its head out of hardware long enough to perfect its client software. But the combination of broad feature set and usability that Apple brings to desktops, with the idea that one can sit down and start working immediately, didn't stand a chance of making it to servers.
• The rise of the FOSS spinmeister 3 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  In August 2003, a little more than three months after the SCO Group had filed a lawsuit against IBM, seeking damages for alleged breach of contract, I had an email exchange with Blake Stowell, who was then the public relations manager of the former company.
• High availability by virtualization? Try RDBMS 4 months ago
  
  Better system uptime may require a relational database management system(RDBMS), not virtualization, our expert explains.
• Does Linux virtualization mean migration from Unix or Windows? 4 months ago
  
  Do virtualization products require that applications run off a specific operating system? Expert Andrew Kutz says that all depends on what kind of virtualization you mean.
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