Date: Thu, 14. August 2008 15:05:23

Chad_Wollenberg writes "Anyone who has used a derivative of Unix over the past 20 years has used Bash, which stands for Borne Again Shell. The geek in all of us makes us want to extend our ability to rule the command line. To truly master a Unix environment, you need to know a shell, and Bash is easily the most popular of them. Any Unix/Linux/BSD administrator knows the power at your fingertips is fully extended by what you can do within the Bash environment, and all of us need the best recipes to get the job done." Keep reading for the rest of Chad's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Mon, 6. October 2008 12:30:00

InfoWorld - Mono 2.0, an open-source runtime enabling .Net-based applications to run on Linux, Mac OS X, and Unix, is being released Monday, featuring capabilities for a number of .Net technologies.

Date: Mon, 22. November 2010 22:36:51

jfruhlinger writes "Word came down this morning that when Attachmate bought Novell, certain intellectual property rights were sold to a Microsoft-led consortium as part of the deal. Since Unix is the most valuable piece of IP Novell owns, there was a certain amount of panic that suddenly Redmond is in charge of this foundational technology for Linux and a number of other open source projects. But, while MS is being cagey, Brian Proffitt doubts that Unix was part of the IP package that was sold — and believes that Linux would be safe even if it were." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Wed, 25. August 2010 19:52:00

Demand for Windows and Linux servers is increasing at a rapid pace, at the expense of Unix servers and other non-x86 machines, according to IDC.

Date: Wed, 3. November 2010 17:07:30

Mashable - Google has announced that it is launching a new module for the Apache HTTP server called mod_pagespeed that will perform many speed optimizations automatically. This means that rather than having to fine tune your server configuration for every site you setup, you can instead install the Apache module to optimize automagically.

Date: Tue, 17. March 2009 14:29:36

IT decision-makers are planning to increase the use of server and client-side Linux due to the economic climate, analyst firm IDC has found. The current economic downturn is set to drive Linux adoption, according to a white paper by research organization IDC. In a survey of...

Date: Mon, 26. October 2009 15:05:55

mpol writes "For years I've been using a home server with Linux, but recently I've been having doubts about the electric bill. I'm not touched by the recession yet, but I would like to cut costs, and going from a 100-Watt system to a 30-Watt system would save me 70 bucks a year. The system doesn't need to do much, just apache, imap, ssh and some nfs, but I do prefer to have a full-fledged system, where I can choose what to install on it. I also don't really care if it's a low-power Via or an ARM processor as long as it's cheap. I'm aiming for $300 or less for a full system, which I could then earn back in about four years through power savings. I've been reading about the Western Digital Mybook World Edition, which has an ARM processor but isn't that easy to install Debian on. A Mac Mini draws about 85 Watts, so that isn't an option either. Something a bit more than turn-key would be fine, but preferably not a complete hack-job. Adding a temporary CR-ROM or DVD-ROM, or a USB disk with an iso to install from would be nice. Any Slashdotters run nice and cheap low-power Linux systems? What can you recommend?"pa href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/10/25/1615203/Low-Power-Home-Linux-Server?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/10/25/1615203"/a/ppa href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/10/25/1615203/Low-Power-Home-Linux-Server?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3lefHAr_StIY_3cP9RKJphYI__I/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3lefHAr_StIY_3cP9RKJphYI__I/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3lefHAr_StIY_3cP9RKJphYI__I/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3lefHAr_StIY_3cP9RKJphYI__I/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/T_MsjhXMZzs" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Thu, 4. June 2009 04:01:00

This chart shows the history and development paths of today's major versions of Unix and Unix-like operating systems.

Date: Thu, 17. September 2009 03:06:25

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Date: Thu, 17. September 2009 15:05:23

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