1. So is Linux to Ubuntu as DOS was to Windows? Where can I find like a side by side comparison of Linux, Unix, Gentoo, Windows and KDE?
(CommunityAnswers / Systems Management)

2. Big-Volume Filesystems?
(CommunityAnswers / Enterprise)

3. Samba: Less Important Because Windows is Less Important
(Enterprise Computing/Systems Management )

... Samba remains the key component for interaction between different versions of Windows on one hand, and Linux, BSD variants, Solaris, AIX, and other Unix-based systems on the other. Samba also supports ...

4. Weekend Project: Get to Know Btrfs
(Learn Linux/Linux How to and Tutorials)

The Butter/Better/B-tree Filesystem, Btrfs, is supposedly destined to become the default Linux filesystem. What makes it special, and what's wrong with good old tried-and-true Ext2/3/4? The ...

5. Chatting with Peter Tait of Lucid Imagination
(Community Blogs/Business (or Enterprise))

... supporting Java, so you can use Linux, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS and the indexes are portable across platforms. The product includes integrated client API's for JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, PHP, Java, ...

6. FreeNAS 8.0 Simplifies Storage
(Learn Linux/Linux How to and Tutorials)

... copy-on-write transactions, and logical volume management. It originated in Sun's OpenSolaris, but has since been ported to other operating systems. ZFS volumes can be fully managed from the Web admin ...

7. The Importance of Isolation
(Technology Feature/Security)

... has a short guide for mixing it up with Linux and Solaris, or this guide for Linux IPSec and Windows XP. It's possible to implement IPSec across platforms without anything but the tools available natively, ...

8. Explanation of Firewalls
(Community Blogs/Desktops)

... Firewall MS windows Software Stateful No $39.95 USD + subscription MS ISA Server MS Windows Server Software/Application Stateless No $1,499+ USD Squid Linux, BSD, Solaris, windows Software/Application ...

9. KVM or Xen? Choosing a Virtualization Platform
(Enterprise Computing/Systems Management )

... and Xen Xen is a hypervisor that supports x86, x86_64, Itanium, and ARM architectures, and can run Linux, Windows, Solaris, and some of the BSDs as guests on their supported CPU architectures. It's ...

10. The Beat Goes On: Open Source Multimedia Tools Part 2
(Software/Applications)

... systems, such as Linux, MacOS X, Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and even Windows 2000 and Windows XP.  Pulse Audio uses a sound server to receive and process all audio streams, even those coming over the ...

11. Steve Jobs Says I Told You: Adobe Found Critical Flaw In Flash
(Community Blogs/General Linux)

... 9.0.262 and 10.0.x and 9.0.x for Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris; In the case of Adobe Reader and Acrobat, the versions 9.3.2 and older to 9.0.x for Windows, Mac and UNIX. The Version 10.1 RC for Flash ...

12. Containers vs. Hypervisors: Choosing the Best Virtualization Technology
(Enterprise Computing/Systems Management )

... for example. In some configurations, you can run Linux and Solaris/OpenSolaris using Solaris Zones, but for Linux virtualization, you're limited to running Linux guests on a Linux host. You're ...

13. Set up OSOL 2010-03 (build 134) PV Guest at Xen 4.0 Dom0 (2.6.32.10 pvops kernel) on top of Ubuntu Karmic Koala Server
(Community Blogs/Servers)

... -B zfs-bootfs=rpool/ROOT/opensolaris,bootpath=/xpvd/xdf@51712:a</cmdline>   </os>   <clock offset='utc'/>   <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>   <on_reboot>destroy</on_reboot> ...

14. Today's Guide to Linux Virtualization
(Enterprise Computing/Systems Management )

... using FreeBSD, there's jails, and if you're using Solaris/OpenSolaris then there's Zones. What's the practical difference? Using a full virtualization solution you'll be able to ...

15. DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 343
(DistributionCentral/Distribution News)

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: Desktop comparison - Zenwalk Linux, Salix OS and GoblinX News: OpenSolaris survives Oracle takeover, Fedora delays first alpha, Mandriva switches to nouveau, ...

16. How Sun's Need to Control the Code Cost Them the Company
(Business of Open Source/Governance)

Jeremy Allison looks back at the demise of Sun Microsystems on ZDNet. "The Solaris operating system, the Java language and virtual machine, the OpenOffice office suite - all of the really large ...

17. DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 343
(DistributionCentral/Distribution News)

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: Desktop comparison - Zenwalk Linux, Salix OS and GoblinX News: OpenSolaris survives Oracle takeover, Fedora delays first alpha, Mandriva switches to nouveau, ...

18. Oracle and Apple: This Week's Big Tech News and What it Means for Linux
(Software/Multimedia)

... Solaris, different products addressing different markets. Want to make them both better." The likelihood is that Oracle will continue to invest in both Solaris and Linux for the next few decades, ...

19. A comparison of virtualization features of HP-UX, Solaris, and AIX
(Community Blogs/General Linux)

... hardware platforms? find out what HP-UX, Solaris have to offer and how do some of their features compare to PowerVM. ...

20. Linux Succeeds Across the Board
(Enterprise Computing/Business News)

...  Solaris 10 has more applications, but it lags significantly in terms of ISV enthusiasm. An interesting statistic, not usually broken out, is how Linux (paid) and Windows (paid) shipments are doing ...