By Serdar Yegulalp OpenBSD, one of the more prominent variants of the BSD family of Unix-like operating systems, will be released at the beginning of September, according to a note on …read more Source:: OpenSource
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IDG Contributor Network: How BSD was built, and how it lost the lead to Linux
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•By Jim Lynch How BSD was built and how it lost the lead to Linux BSD has been eclipsed by the popularity of Linux over the years. But how did BSD get started? And …read more Source:: OpenSource
Critical remote code execution flaw patched in Samba
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•Security researchers are urging users to install new Samba security updates in order to address a critical vulnerability that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol that enables Unix-like systems, including Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X to share files and printers with…
And Now for Something Completely Different
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•“While some may complain about fragmentation, I love the idea that I can choose a distro that suits my needs,” said Google+ blogger Kevin O’Brien — “or more than one, if I have several different needs. Right now I have three different *nix systems on my home network — two of them Linux and one…