Unix

HP started then spiked HP-UX on x86 project

23 May 2012

Juicy Itanium trial document firehose opened As part of the ongoing lawsuit about whether or not Oracle had committed itself to supporting its software on Hewlett-Packard's Itanium-based servers, the software giant did a core dump of very interesting documents that show what many of us suspected: that HP did indeed mull acquiring the Sparc/Solaris business and that HP did in fact have a ...

Sudo broken, sudo fixed

22 May 2012

An essential Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X administration tool had a major security problem. It's been fixed, and now you need to patch your system ASAP.

Will Google Android Forks Trigger Unix-like Fractures?

17 May 2012

The VAR Guy : Will Google  Android encounter multiple forks in the road?