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The OpenBSD project has released version 4.4 of the popular descendant of the Unix-like Berkeley Software Distribution, the project's 25th release, featuring support for new hardware platforms, improved hardware support, upgrade process changes and new applications.
The distribution, released over the weekend,
via FTP or by ordering a set of CDs, a distribution mechanism the project uses to help pay its costs.
and the (more...)

There is a business behind the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system and according to its lead commercial sponsor Canonical, that business is good. Canonical is set to debut its latest Linux release Ubuntu 8.10 also known as the Intrepid Ibex on October 30th. The new release will include networking, virtualization and user management improvements.
The Ibex release will also be a milestone for Canonical, a company that is barely four years old that (more...)

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Nov 04, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) --
Simba Technologies Inc., industry's choice for standards-based
relational and multi-dimensional data connectivity solutions,
announced today the release of SimbaLib ODBC SDK 8.1, a Software
Development Kit (SDK) for building ODBC Drivers for any SQL-Enabled
data source. SimbaLib ODBC SDK - which can also be easily extended to
support JDBC, OLE DB and ADO.NET data connectivity (more...)

Maybe, just maybe, the best things in life really are free. Take Linux, for example. It's a great, free operating system that you don't have to spend a dime on. You can use it to run the New York Stock Exchange's servers; you can use it to run your desktop; and you can use it to run your mobile phone.
's report,
reminds me again of just how truly valuable and remarkable this 'free' operating system really is. In this study, the Foundation analyzed (more...)

For some, the Linux operating system is about offering an alternative to proprietary commercial systems. For Ubuntu Linux and its new Intrepid Ibex distribution, it's also about offering more features that extend usability and effectiveness.
Intrepid Ibex -- the name for Ubuntu version 8.10 -- is being released today with a host of new features for both Linux desktop and server users. Among the additions are networking, virtualization, security (more...)

So you think Windows is the master of the PC? The man in the penguin suit would like to formally disagree with that statement.
Linux will ship on more PCs next year than Microsoft Windows, but not as the core operating system. Instead, it will be used to boot computers, particularly notebooks, faster.
That's the prediction of Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux foundation,
In making his forecast, Zemlin
that chronicles how Hewlett-Packard, (more...)

It was one of the painful thing I had to do ....
I wiped out my FreeBSD system and installed Linux over it. I need a few features that BSD has not caughtup with and PC-BSD does not fix that either but the one that forced the switch was Virtualization - I was hoping they might port VirtualBox or VMware to FreeBSD but has not happened (is there anything like that?).
BSD folks seem to focus a lot on running Linux software but I think a solution like (more...)

Why do we need to run all these SEPARATE OS's?
On a VMS system or a mainframe, or hell on UNIX like Solaris, and HPUX we could run lots and lots of different applications ALL ON THE SAME system. We could manage them all independently, patch them they would co-exist well, etc...
Seems like a huge waste of resources to have to run TWO whole operating systems just because you can't run Oracle and MSSQL on the same server.
Maybe its because Windows (more...)

The 25th release of the free BSD Unix-like operating system has been made available.
OpenBSD 4.4 offers new improved drivers including support for the Intel G33 and G35 chipsets and a variety of new Wi-Fi chips. It also boosts better ACPI support for some Asus and Thinkpad notebooks.
The software can be downloaded from several mirrors and there?s also a quaint CD release that OpenBSD is providing to the types among you who want to spread a little (more...)

According to Eric Lomascolo, director of product management at Xiotech, “Our customers have saved significant money, time and stress by simplifying how they monitor, provision and manage their storage through ICON Manager. Storage management is more application-driven than storage-driven, and the human error found in complex management procedures is essentially eliminated, because of the automation and control ICON Manager delivers. With support (more...)