What's Left Of Unix?, Jan 23, 2006

Longtime Unix customers are bailing out. This past weekend, Ohio Savings Bank planned to move its core mortgage-processing application off of five megaservers running HP-UX to a cluster of low-cost Linux servers.

With the traditional Microsoft news media turning their collective ear to the rest of the industry, you have to suspect a changing of the guard. But Linux companies don't seem to guage their efforts by what the industry says about Microsoft. Linux just keeps chugging along.

The principles are the same, but technology has moved on significantly in the 15 years since the release of GPL 2

A serious vulnerability has been found in the popular KDE open-source software bundle.

OpenVZ wants to see its virtualisation technology in the heart of the open source operating system

Richard Stallman, founder of the FSF, talks about his goals for the GPL and the hopes and fears of free software advocates.

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