Oracle praised the Solaris operating system when it agreed to acquire its creator, Sun Microsystems , but the actual beauty of this fine piece of engineering was left unexplained. Here's a look at the ...

Sun Microsystems has begun releasing an update for Solaris 8, its version of the Unix operating system, that can dish out Web pages faster and is easier to manage, the company said. Solaris 8 update ...

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Sun Microsystems Inc. is adding an advanced, more powerful 128-bit ZFS file system, new virtualization technologies and the Postgres open-source database to its Solaris 10 Unix operating system, as ...

Oracle introduced the biggest update to its Solaris operating system in nearly a decade Wednesday. By all accounts it was a classy event, held at Gotham Hall in New York. We can't tell you much about ...

Experts at SophosLabs have warned of an internet worm that is exploiting a recently announced vulnerability on Sun Solaris servers. The Unix/Froot-A worm (also known as Wanuk) exploits a vulnerability ...

On "1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 Day," tech lovers all over the world celebrated the moment when the clocks in the popular Unix computer operating system struck that exact stream of numbers. But on Feb. 13, ...

A fascinating little point made in a much longer piece about the smartphone wars. One that makes me wonder whether Unix can now be considered to be the most successful operating system of all time.