unix

  • SCO fires CEO McBride as it tries to emerge from bankruptcy 20/10/2009 07:33:00

    Three remaining execs are working closely with Chapter 11 trustees to implement a restructuring plan
    Unix software vendor SCO, struggling through bankruptcy and a Unix copyright trial involving Novell, has fired president and CEO, Darl McBride.
  • Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of the OS 28/07/2009 01:27:00

    In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer at AT&T Bell Laboratories, saw the monthlong absence of his wife and young son as an opportunity to put his ideas for a new operating system into practice
    Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created.
  • OpenSolaris is becoming more like regular Solaris 01/06/2009 14:09:00

    Support deals are now the same for the open source and commercial versions of the OS; open source upgrade also adds Sparc support
    Lines are beginning to blur between the open source and commercial versions of the Sun Microsystems Solaris Unix operating system.
  • 10 AppleScripts to make you love your Mac (even more) 22/05/2009 09:06:00

    Apple's highly useful scripting language is one of the Mac's hidden gems
    Why, when people were trying to get me to switch from Windows to a Mac, did no one tell me about AppleScript?
  • NASA uses Unix to track asteroid's close call to Earth 05/03/2009 08:46:00

    An asteroid the size of a third of a football field passed precariously close to the Earth on Monday.
    An asteroid the size of a third of a football field passed precariously close to the Earth on Monday.
  • World without Linux 14/11/2008 10:31:00

    An insight into a world without Linux...
    DATELINE: WindowsWorld 2008: Microsoft CEO and President, Steve Ballmer was happy as a clam today at his WindowsWorld keynote in San Francisco's Gates Center. "Nothing can make me happier to tell you that, Larry Page CEO of Google," a niche AOL search engine, "has agreed to run their search engine on Windows Server 2004."
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