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AU Unix and open systems group in dire straits
One of the oldest Unix user groups in the world -- the Australian Unix and Open Systems Users Group (AUUG) -- may be forced to close its doors due to declining membership. Read more »
UNIX group wants money to take on OOXML
A group of UK open-source advocates is seeking donations so it can continue its fight against the approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format. Read more »
SCO cuts jobs
The SCO Group laid off a "small" number of employees late last week as part of an effort to make its Unix products group profitable, the company says. Read more »
SCO still wants info from IBM
The SCO Group, which sued IBM over its treatment of the Unix and Linux operating systems, this week accused Big Blue of failing to release required documents. Read more »
Judge slams SCO's lack of evidence against IBM
The federal judge overseeing the SCO Group's suit against IBM regarding Unix and Linux has thwarted an IBM attempt to defang SCO's claims, but he also voiced loud skepticism about SCO's case. Read more »
Survey: Linux programmers yawn at SCO
A new survey has found that 73 percent of Linux programmers believe the SCO Group's legal attacks on the open-source operating system lack merit. Read more »
SCO Group files for bankruptcy protection
Three and a half years after launching a high-profile legal attack on Linux, The SCO Group has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Read more »
SCO Group returns from the dead to haunt Linux
SCO Group, which for years has claimed that Linux infringes on its Unix intellectual property, has received new funding and seems set to continue its battle against the open source operating system. Read more »
SCO fined in Germany over Linux claims
SCO Group has been ordered to pay a €10,000 fine in Germany for making claims that Linux includes intellectual property from Unix. Read more »
Windows Server reliability crashes in 2007
The downtime experienced by Windows Server 2003 increased 25 percent to nine hours per server per year, while the reliability of mainstream server-based Linux distributions improved significantly, according to a Yankee Group survey. Read more »
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Linux guidelines get an upgrade
Open-source software proponent Free Standards Group has released version 2.0 of its Linux development guidelines to the public. Read more »
Make UNIX administration easier
Perl is everywhere. Most UNIX-like systems come with it, and those that don't have it hurriedly installed. Mac OS X comes with it, and any NT administrator worth his or her salt installs it straight away. Read more »
UNIX tools track down hackers
Catching malicious hackers isn't impossible. With the right tools, you can gather important information to help stop hack attacks. How can you use common UNIX tools to hunt down network attackers? Read more »
UNIX programming and open source Q&A
Eric Raymond's upcoming book on UNIX Programming discusses the principles that guide UNIX development. Find out what his thoughts are on the state of UNIX programming and other issues that face the open source community. Read more »
Use vi to edit files in a UNIX environment
Here are the basic tips and tricks you need to know to use the vi text editor in Linux/UNIX. Read more »
Monitor network traffic with ntop
Like the command-line tool with a similar name (top), ntop is a monitoring agent. Instead of monitoring system resource usage like top, ntop monitors network usage and provides some very sophisticated and informative data. Read more »
Gnome grafted onto Solaris
The latest version of Sun's Unix operating system for the first time incorporates the Gnome interface. Read more »
It's a Matrix moment for Linux
We are finding out that the brains of Linux programmers have been floating in tanks, feeding the parasitic robots (lawyers) who are calling the shots at financially strapped SCO. Now it's time to harvest those brains. Read more »
Is Caldera moving away from Linux?
Caldera's name change to SCO Group has prompted fears that the company is abandoning Linux. The CEO says this is not true. Read more »
The FUD war against Linux
Open-source activist Bruce Perens uncovers the SCO-Microsoft connection behind a campaign to convince users that trade secrets of Unix have been copied into Linux. Read more »
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The Fud is Flying! (Again)
-- It seems like that the latest marketing technique for software vendors is to sling a little FUD and see if it sticks. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt make for some attention-grabbing headlines and are great for scaring potential customers away from a competitors offering. Read more »
AUUG conference gets a peek inside Google
-- Google is poised to give their first public insight into the management of their clustered architecture at the annual AUUG conference in Melbourne next week. Read more »
Mandriva, Turbolinux enter Linux alliance
-- Forgive me if I sound skeptical, but during the nine years I've covered Linux, not once have I seen a favorable outcome to the partnership of the type Mandriva and Turbolinux announced Wednesday. Read more »
Samba gets an inside look at Microsoft documentation
-- A complicated third-party arrangement means that the open-source Samba project will be able to make use of proprietary documents describing Microsoft file-sharing software. Read more »
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In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »
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Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5
Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »
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BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continueAttending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
Club Builder this week takes a long look at Senator Conroy's recent attempt to explain his Great Firewall of Australia, we chase Steve Ballmer over Sydney, and find Google's biggest bug of the year.