Date: Wed, 10. February 2010 03:08:32

viralMeme writes "Microsoft plans to begin phasing out Unix and Linux platform support for its FAST enterprise search products, as of its next release. According to a Thursday blog post from Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Bj#248;rn Olstad, 'Wersquo;ve continued to sell, support, and update the Linux and UNIX versions of FAST ESP, and wersquo;ve designed the next wave of FAST products (scheduled for release in the first half of calendar year 2010) to include a cross-platform search core that has been extended to take advantage of web services and support mixed-platform deployment models. With our 2010 products scheduled for release in a few months, wersquo;ve just started to plan for our next wave of products. As a part of that planning process, we have decided that in order to deliver more innovation per release in the future, the 2010 products will be the last to include a search core that runs on Linux and UNIX. Many of our customers run FAST ESP on Linux and UNIX today, and we recognize that our future focus on Windows means change. To ease the transition, wersquo;re investing in interoperability between Windows and other operating systems, reaffirming our commitment to 10 years of support for our non-Windows products, and taking concrete steps to help customers plan for the future.'"pa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1452238/Microsoft-Phasing-Out-FAST-Search-For-Linux-Unix?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/02/09/1452238"/a/ppa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1452238/Microsoft-Phasing-Out-FAST-Search-For-Linux-Unix?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jhYtBZMW1cQiSmFXZbbHdvTuPQk/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jhYtBZMW1cQiSmFXZbbHdvTuPQk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jhYtBZMW1cQiSmFXZbbHdvTuPQk/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jhYtBZMW1cQiSmFXZbbHdvTuPQk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/4bpWhbdiO40" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Thu, 4. February 2010 15:06:02

Kyle Hamilton writes "The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 1.3.42 of the Apache HTTP Server ('Apache'). This release is intended as the final release of version 1.3 of the Apache HTTP Server, which has reached end of life status There will be no more full releases of Apache HTTP Server 1.3. However, critical security updates may be made available."pa href="http://apache.slashdot.org/story/10/02/03/2052211/The-Final-Release-of-Apache-HTTP-Server-13?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/02/03/2052211"/a/ppa href="http://apache.slashdot.org/story/10/02/03/2052211/The-Final-Release-of-Apache-HTTP-Server-13?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5hG5kU9BjP4cYffZXTH-AdD5Uxo/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5hG5kU9BjP4cYffZXTH-AdD5Uxo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5hG5kU9BjP4cYffZXTH-AdD5Uxo/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5hG5kU9BjP4cYffZXTH-AdD5Uxo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/zv4Wq4CNwzg" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Fri, 2. May 2008 17:51:58

Open-source fans have dismissed Darl McBride's court comments in the lawsuit brought against SCO by Novell Troubled software maker SCO's chief executive has claimed the Linux operating system includes Unix source code, during a court case in which Novell is suing SCO for royalties on Unix. ...

Date: Fri, 2. May 2008 17:51:58

Open-source fans have dismissed Darl McBride's court comments in the lawsuit brought against SCO by Novell Troubled software maker SCO's chief executive has claimed the Linux operating system includes Unix source code, during a court case in which Novell is suing SCO for royalties on Unix. ...

Date: Tue, 20. April 2010 15:05:36

An anonymous reader writes "Developing GUI script-based applications is time-consuming and expensive. Most Unix-based scripts run in a CLI mode or over a secure ssh session. The Unix shells are quite sophisticated programming languages in their own right: they are easy to design and quick to build, but they are not user-friendly in the same way the Unix commands aren't (see the Unix haters books). Both Unix and bash provide features for writing user friendly scripts using various tools to build powerful, interactive, user-friendly scripts that run under the bash shell on Linux or Unix. What tools do you use that spice up your scripts on the Linux or Unix platforms?"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F04%2F19%2F233259%2FAdding-Some-Spice-To-nix-Shell-Scripts" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Adding+Some+Spice+To+*nix+Shell+Scripts%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9l1Q05" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/04/19/233259/Adding-Some-Spice-To-nix-Shell-Scripts?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1623912amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframe pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/43O7KZpvOhcMQoq8OhfyUbP9qYU/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/43O7KZpvOhcMQoq8OhfyUbP9qYU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/43O7KZpvOhcMQoq8OhfyUbP9qYU/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/43O7KZpvOhcMQoq8OhfyUbP9qYU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/MJBqRREVI5A" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Mon, 26. September 2011 08:04:45

First time accepted submitter bhcompy writes "I need to setup a system to serve 2500 users and I've been looking at a LAMP setup. This is not commercial, more of a personal side project for some friends. I've no experience configuring or administering a Linux server having worked with MS and PICK based solutions my whole life, so I'm looking for something that will be relatively straightforward to implement and not a chore to manage and preferably not completely CLI. I will be serving a forum(phpBB 3 suits my needs and seems adequate) and a variety of PHP driven content with a MySQL backend. Requirements are PHP 5.3.0+ and MySQL 5+. Suggestions?" Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Mon, 9. February 2009 15:07:28

mikesd81 writes "Over at Linux Magazine Online, Jon maddog Hall writes that on Friday the 13th, 2009 at 11:31:30pm UTC UNIX time will reach 1,234,567,890. This will be Friday, February 13th at 1831 and 30 seconds EST. Matias Palomec has a perl script you an use to see what time that will be for you: perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";' Now, while this is not the UNIX epoch, Alan Cox does assure us that Linux is now working on 64-bit time, and the UNIX epoch 'roll-over' would happen about the time that the sun burnt out."pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/08/2043206amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/02/08/2043206"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/08/2043206amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/SaOZ9IZfMQhkjkUHUyaOfcDg0hU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/SaOZ9IZfMQhkjkUHUyaOfcDg0hU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/37IjJh40Ko8" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Sat, 2. August 2008 03:05:46

gbjbaanb writes "Ever thought it was difficult to write software for Linux? For multiple distros? InternetNews reports that the LSB is making a push for their next release (due out later this year) that should help make all that much easier. Although the LSB has not lived up to expectations, this time around Linux has a higher profile and ISVs are more interested. This is to help persuade them to develop applications that will run on any LSB-compliant Linux distribution. If it gets adopted, LSB 4 could bring a new wave of multidistribution Linux application development. 'It is critically important for Linux to have an easy way for software developers to write to distro "N," whether it's Red Hat, Ubuntu or Novell,' [said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation.] 'The reason you need that is because we don't want what happened to Unix to happen to Linux in terms of fragmentation.' The LSB defines a core set of APIs and libraries, so ISVs can develop and port applications that will work on LSB-certified Linux distributions."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Fri, 19. June 2009 15:05:24

worb writes "Opera Unite comes with a web server which is supposedly going to 'redefine the web.' But how well does it actually perform? Is it a threat to other server solutions? Someone put it to the test, and published the results. While nginx, one of the fastest web servers available, is 5 times faster, a PHP+Apache+MySQL server is only 2 times as fast. A compiled C++ server, the MadFish WebToolkit, is 6 times faster. He concludes that Opera Unite's server is impressive, and that the others come nowhere close to the ease of use."pa href="http://apache.slashdot.org/story/09/06/19/0227249/Opera-Unite-Web-Server-Benchmarked?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/06/19/0227249"/a/ppa href="http://apache.slashdot.org/story/09/06/19/0227249/Opera-Unite-Web-Server-Benchmarked?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VpjL5sPxpOc0eVFKibqP85-TNzA/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VpjL5sPxpOc0eVFKibqP85-TNzA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VpjL5sPxpOc0eVFKibqP85-TNzA/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VpjL5sPxpOc0eVFKibqP85-TNzA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/rTChG29ezr0" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Fri, 13. August 2010 09:58:00

These tips from the latest edition of the Unix and Linux system Administration Handbook will help your code be more readable and easier to use.