A critical remote code execution vulnerability in Bash, present in almost all Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X deployments, has been discovered. Experts advise immediate patching.

Why switch to Linux? More security, more privacy, and freedom from vendor lock-in. And these distributions are as simple to ...

Operating systems such as Mac OS X, various Linux and Unix flavours include Bash. Additionally, some networking equipment such as routers and switches running on Linux variants also make use of Bash.

Linux isn't a certified Unix system, and some say it definitely isn't Unix. The key question for a business is if a commercial Unix flavor is enough like Linux that you can make an easy transition ...

Mac OS X’s Unix heritage is also obvious from the services it can provide to other machines, via TCP/IP. The beta comes complete with Apache, the Unix-spawned Web server that runs over half the ...

“Enter Mac OS X. Many see it has the cool new kid on the Unix block, while others feel that their Linux machines are in some way threatened by the new Mac OS.” ...

Last week's update to System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 added support for the management of Linux, Mac and Unix operating systems. This update, version 5.00.7804.1202, was published on June 10. It ...

In the early days, building standard UNIX-type software such as BIND or the Apache HTTPD required some tweaking, but these days, most of it compiles for Mac OS X out of the box (well, tar file).

Attachmate's SUSE division is touting the scalability, new processor support and other enhancements in its SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3 that's available now.

We really like Mac OS X. Really. We now use it as our default OS and, overall, would not want to go back to OS 9. We recognize the advantages that UNIX provides, in terms of stability etc. and ...