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Software company unifies rival OSes, benefits war victims

This blog post was written by Bridget Botelho, a news writer. When I get pitches from companies that are rife with marketing bull, I am quick to hit delete. But when Likewise Software sent me this goofy press...

Users praise, pan Linux at Wall Street trade show

This blog post was written by Pam Derringer, news writer for SearchEnterpriseLinux.com.

Last week, lots of IT guys from New York’s biggest banks and stock brokerages took a day off to attend the sixth annual

Splunk: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love log files

Log files may be the most important piece of forensic information we have when determining why a server or application crashes. However, warnings of such a distaster are available to IT administrators. They just have to know where to look (hint: what do you think log files are...

NASDAQ serves SCO with delisting notice

There's piling on, and then there's what happened to the hapless SCO today. Just to recap,

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SCO and Hasbro’s Mouse Trap

Last Friday’s ruling by Federal District...

LinuxWorld: User Q&A with Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian

There wasn't as much clapping as I thought there'd be. What I mean is; is when a user stepped up to the microphone to grill Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian about Microsoft, the GPLv3 and those infamous "coupons," there wasn't the zealous explosion of applause that I had become accustomed to over the...

So Apple hired Sweet, bought CUPS–what’s next?

"Apple buys...

Unigroup meeting 6/21- Ubuntu

For those of you local to the Metro NY area, you may want to consider Unigroup as a user group hangout. It's one of the best user groups out there on Unix and Linux in NYC. I've been a member for quite sometime and actually was a board member awhile back. It is a very technical group, so be...