Neowin News Feed for: Unix

Trivia Tuesday: Xenix - Microsoft's forgotten OS

Tyler Holman — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:57:29 +0000

Windows, MS-DOS, OS/2... and Xenix? Once upon a time, Microsoft was selling the world's most popular version of Unix, and rumor has it that they even used it to develop DOS and Windows. Read more...

Only 3 of the world's most powerful computers run Windows

Tyler Holman — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 03:39:35 +0000

3 of the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers run Windows, compared to the 469 running Linux. The good news? That's more than in June. The bad news? It's still even less than last year. Read more...

'Whonix' appears in the wild, makes your IP harder to find

Paul Ferson — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 06:36:40 +0000

With Linux and its open source nature people have been able to create unique projects, and the wittily named 'Whonix' is no exception. Combining security tools it brings several layers of IP security. Read more...

Trivia Tuesday: All About Operating Systems

Tyler Holman — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:36:51 +0100

This week's Trivia Tuesday takes a look at operating systems; what they are, how they work, and their history, from their unlikely origins at General Motors to the source code of Windows. Read more...

Dennis Ritchie, creator of C and co-creator of Unix, dies

John Callaham — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:23:36 +0100

Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and the co-creator of the Unix operating system while he worked at Bell Labs, died over the weekend at the age of 70. Read more...

Former contractor alleges OpenBSD has FBI backdoors

Matthew Jones — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:01:58 +0000

A former US Government contractor has claimed the FBI placed a number of backdoors into the OpenBSD operating system. In an email made public on Tuesday, Gregory Perry former chief technologist at the now-defunct Network Security... Read more...

Party like it's 1234567890

Christopher Vendemio — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:25:17 +0000

This is one of those tidbits only a true geek will appreciate. For those of us who are completely out of the Unix loop, the operating system measures time by counting seconds from January 1,... Read more...

SCO guilty of lying about Unix code in Linux in Germany

mlauzon76 — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:27:49 +0000

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In the United States, SCO's Linux/Unix litigation has been stalled out while the company's bankruptcy trial is being dealt with. In Germany, however, several court cases have found SCO Group GmbH, SCO's Germany branch, guilty... Read more...

Judge Rules: SCO Does Not Own Unix

Sagittarius — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:37:21 +0100

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The SCO Group, notorious for its legal campagin against Linux users and developers, was dealt a devastating blow last week. A federal judge ruled that Novell, not SCO, owns the copyrights to Unix, effectively cutting... Read more...

SCO To Unix Developers: We Want You Back

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:23:31 +0100

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The SCO Group Inc. is trying to become something other than the company that sued prominent users of Linux. "During the last 25 years, SCO has been committed to the Unix platform and continues... Read more...

LSB Goal: Save Linux From the Fate of Unix

Michael Stanclift — Wed, 31 May 2006 03:17:01 +0100

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Before there was Linux, before there was open source, there was (and still is) an operating system called Unix that was robust, stable and widely admired. It was also available under license to anyone... Read more...

Longhorn following Unix on security?

malebolgia — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:36:37 +0100

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Microsoft's delayed Longhorn operating system appears to be taking a page from the Unix management book by curbing user's administration rights. Mike Nash, Microsoft's security business and technology unit corporate vice president, has said Longhorn... Read more...

UNIX Authors Rush to Patch Telnet Flaw

malebolgia — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:46:01 +0100

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Several high-profile distributors of the BSD version of the Telnet protocol have rolled out patches for a critical bug that could cause system-hijack attacks. The bug, which was reported by iDefense Inc., is a remotely... Read more...

IBM Says It Swamps Rivals in Key UNIX Computer Test

malebolgia — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:09:18 +0000

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IBM said on Thursday its workhorse commercial computers have smashed the industry's most demanding tests, which analysts said creates a performance gap that could put further pressure on Hewlett-Packard or Sun Microsystems to recalibrate their... Read more...

Mac OS X, BSD Unix top security survey

malebolgia — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 16:03:30 +0000

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London-based mi2g Intelligence Unit on Tuesday released a report that says Mac OS X and Berkeley Standard Distribution (BSD) Unix are the "world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environments." Linux operating systems offer... Read more...

IBM brings Unix, faster chip to Power blades

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 13:03:18 +0100

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IBM has improved the processor of its JS20 blade servers and now sells them with its AIX version of the Unix operating system, the company plans to announce Tuesday. The changes mean the blades now... Read more...

SCO tries to revive Unix System Labs name

WishX — Sat, 31 Jul 2004 23:14:50 +0100

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Company has applied for a trademark on the term but is vague about how it plans to use the name. The SCO Group Inc. is trying to revive the name of the... Read more...

Unix to beef up Longhorn

malebolgia — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:07:39 +0100

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Last year rumors surfaced that Microsoft was considering including its Services for Unix (SFU) into Longhorn. Today vnunet is reporting that Microsoft is indeed going to include SFU into its next generation OS. Exactly... Read more...

IBM plans July launch of Power5 Unix server

malebolgia — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 15:39:55 +0100

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The tech giant IBM is expected to unveil new Unix servers on July 13. These new servers will be using IBM's Power5 processors. Several sever models will be announced ranging from two, four,... Read more...

Software maker unites Windows, Unix

Tue, 25 May 2004 11:25:03 +0100

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And the Unix system will lay down with the Windows system, and lo, there shall be peace among the vendors. IT folks are hoping for major interoperability improvements between leading server systems as... Read more...