Unix

The public key encryption scheme developed by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman in the mid-1970s - and influenced by the work of Ralph Merkle - has now made them all pretty darn famous some three-plus decades later: All three have been inducted in 2011 into the Computer History Museum Hall of Fellows and the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Oracle logged a small milestone in its Sun acquisition during the first quarter, expanding sales of Sun's server hardware for the first time in three-and-a-half years, IDC reported Tuesday.

IBM has updated its Power systems lineup with higher-density blades and faster processors for its mid-range Power 750 server, looking to keep its momentum in Unix sales as the market inches back to life.

Using packages such as mod_chroot for use with Apache, or Jailkit, an open-source project with a handful of utilities, can make configuring a chroot jail much more efficient and even automated in some cases. Here are some important things to remember when setting up a chroot jail.

Micro Focus updates Visual Cobol to include access to Azure and the Java Virtual Machine

Solaris 11, due next year, will feature improvements in availability, security, and virtualization.

That fact is, that while many in the Linux community are wondering if UNIX is now owned by a Microsoft-led investment group, we don't know if that's what has happened, and even if it was, it doesn't necessarily mean The End of All Things Penguin.

Solaris gets enhancements to virtualization capabilities, performance, security, and scalability.

Frustrated by what they consider poor treatment and lack of interest from Oracle, members of the OpenSolaris Governing Board are essentially delivering an ultimatum to the vendor, asking that it appoint a liaison to the group by no later than Aug. 16, or else the board will be disbanded.

In this week's column, we're going to take a look at several commands that might save you some time. Each of these commands is easy to use and easy to remember, but just far enough off the beaten track that you might not have used them before.

The recession and uncertainty about vendor plans are sinking Unix server sales, says research firm IDC.