Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of the C programming language and co-creator of UNIX, gives his opinions on a variety of issues in this interview from Unix.SE. He comments on things like GNU, the BSD variants and Linux, and tells what kind of things he's up to.

Researchers at AT&T Research Labs have published a paper (PDF) about counting hosts behind NAT devices. The short version is that they take advantage of the poor use of monotonically increasing packet ID numbers in IP packets sent by different hosts to track the number of hosts that are …

In the ever-growing world of open source projects that are just wrong... comes iPod Linux, a microLinux port to the iPod. Apparently, they now have it booting and playing sound...

I have to admit, when I first saw the announcement of this piece of software, I wondered: "What is Microsoft trying to do here?" For those of you unfamiliar with Microsoft Remote Desktop Client for Macintosh, it is a piece of software created and maintained by Microsoft that allows you …

In an article in InfoWorld, the reporter covers a debate between Sun Microsystems and Microsoft officials over the relative merits of each other's next generation programming tools. Read more for some background... .Net Microsoft's .Net architecture is based on the use of a Common Runtime Library (referred to as the …

According to an article on LinuxDevices.com, IBM is showing a new reference platform for a PDA based on Linux and IBM's PowerPC chip. Features include: PowerPC 405 32MB Ram 32MB Flash dynamic power management etc. etc. etc. IBM processor comparisons on the 405 series are available here.

In the following article on PBS's website, Robert Cringely theorizes that Microsoft would do well to follow Apple's lead and lay their next version of the Windows GUI on top of a Linux base. Something tells me, that ain't going to happen, but if the old VMS guys are gone …

If you're running OS X server, you've probably noticed that certain things (basic file and mail service, basic web service, authentication) work very easily using the built-in user interface. However, if you've gone beyond these basic requirements, the nice Apple UI breaks down a bit. I've been toiling for the …

One of the smallest announcements at MWSF2003 was Apple's release of an industry-standard X11 Server. My initial impressions of this package are very good. I've done a bunch of cursory tests, mainly by using the system for "real work". First, it looks rather fast, which is nice. Xeyes tracks well …

SCO has released a press release today that refutes claims made in an earlier article by Linux Business Week (and referred to by this site). Text of the press release is in the body, but basically it says they have no desire to take legal action against fellow Linux vendors …

An article in Linux Business Week's online edition is claiming to have seen an SCO press release about requiring a royalty payment of $96/CPU for all servers running non-SCO brands of Linux. They apparently claim that the license is required due to UNIX patents acquired by the company from …