Michael Hall

Main     In Other News     Security Roundup     Tips of the Trade Security Roundup A well-publicized DoS vulnerability in TCP/IP will likely be inspiring updates for a while. SGI and NetBSD are the first we’ve seen so far. Linux kernel updates continue to come in from Red Hat, Debian (1, 2, 3), and Trustix. […]

Main     In Other News     Linux Distro Test Drive     Security Roundup     Tips of the Trade Sun claims Red Hat has stuck a ‘proprietary’ fork in the Linux kernel. With Red Hat reaching end of life, we test drive two new Linux distros: SUSE 9.1 and the latest from the Fedora project. We […]

Main     In Other News     Linux Distro Test Drive     Security Roundup     Tips of the Trade Linux Distro Test Drive The Roundup recently enjoyed an annual rite: The testing of the distros. We picked a few of interest and took them out for a few days worth of play. This time around we […]

Main     In Other News     Security Roundup     Tips of the Trade Red Hat’s recent foray into the enterprise desktop Linux market leaves us wondering if it was napping or waiting for the right time to hop on the merry-go-round. Novell released the first beta version of Mono. With AppleScript and the script menu, […]

Main     In Other News     Security Roundup     Tips of the Trade In Other News » Sun COO Jonathan Schwartz made a small clarification of his “Red Hat has forked Linux” comments, telling LinuxInsider “It’s forked because if you write to the Red Hat distribution, you can’t go and run on Debian.” » Veritas […]

Main     In Other News     Security Roundup     Tips of the Trade Minor changes in the GNOME desktop have pundits ranting about the project’s fitness as the banner bearer for Unix desktops. Is this ‘usability’ issue overblown? If you’re curious to see what all the shouting’s about, GARNOME makes testing GNOME 2.6 a snap. […]

Main     Open Source Silly Season     In Other News     Security Roundup     Tips of the Trade In Other News » So what did SCO do that’s so good? It released Vintela Authentication 2.2. The product replaces SCO Authentication 2.1 for Active Directory and centralizes secure authentication within Microsoft’s Active Directory. The product is […]

Main     Open Source Silly Season     In Other News     Security Roundup     Tips of the Trade Does Unix MTA mainstay sendmail carry enough weight to make DomainKeys a viable standard for catching domain-spoofing spammers? If WebDAV is part of your production environment, cadaver provides a way to get at those shares with command […]

As Hewlett-Packard prepares its customers for the end of nearly 30 years of e3000 computing, the company affirmed last week that it remains on previously announced schedules to stop production of the venerable systems by the end of this year and eventually end support of the product in the coming years while hoping to ease […]

Hewlett-Packard has launched its HP-UX operating environment for Intel’s Itanium 2 architecture with the release of HP-UX 11i v2. The release was accompanied by announcements that at least 40 independent software vendors (ISVs) are on board with the move to the new platform, culminating an 18-month-long effort to bring the UNIX operating system to Itanium. […]

Sun has announced the first Project Orion Beta Program. The program is meant to allow customers a chance to both try out Sun’s new “software train” of highly integrated applications built around its Solaris OE, and arrive at configurations that work best prior to launch of the finished product. Solaris OE customers can begin to […]

Editor’s Note: This is the first issue of what will eventually be a weekly column. Enterprise Unix Roundup will be exactly that, a discussion of what has recently transpired in the enterprise Unix market. We will offer news and analysis, security updates, and Unix tips. We welcome your feedback, which can be sent directly to […]