Setting Up an HP-UX CSE Serviceguard Cluster
Charles Keenan provides specific tasks for setting up a Serviceguard high availability cluster on HP-UX/Linux, including example commands to help illustrate key points.
Unix Archive
Unix Still (Kind of) Holding Its Own
The operating system family that powers the lion's share of servers is losing ground to Windows and Linux. Unix is losing so much ground that IT research firm IDC is predicting Windows will take over as the dominant server operating system by the year 2008.
Bash Shell and Beyond
Expose the power of Bash shell, tutorial here.
How to Migrate your Enterprise to Unix
This quick guide is based on true story, and is contributed to the community with the intent to be helpful to the department, office and enterprise Managers, network Administrators and support Staff, and Small Business Owners.
IBM First To Recieve UNIX 2003 Certification
Last Wednesday, IBM's AIX was the first to recieve the UNIX 2003 certification from The Open Group, beating out Sun, HP, SCO and the rest.
HP’s Hall responds to Schwartz’s claims
Peter Hall from HP has responded to Sun's Jonathan Schwartz. Apparently HP is still committed to the HP-UX operating system.
An HP UX-11i Performance Management Methodology
Optimizing the performance of a system can save your company a considerable amount of money. In this chapter, you'll see how to streamline your system for maximum efficiency.
HP tells Sun to get its facts straight
Hewlett-Packard has formally demanded that Sun Microsystems and its president, Jonathan Schwartz, stop publishing what it calls "misleading and factually incorrect statements" about HP's commitment to its version of Unix--but Sun is standing firm.
HP sends letter to muzzle Sun’s Schwartz
HP has sent a letter to Sun that complains about the inflammatory nature of Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog entries, according to this report. Apparently it is in response to Schwartz saying that HP's Unix operating system is dying.
OneFinger 1.0 Released
OneFinger is a general-purpose GUI for composing CLI commands with the mouse. Although entirely graphical, it does not attempt to hide the underlying CLI language. Requires Python for Qt3.
Unix on the Desktop (in the car, in your pocket, etc)
Some intrepid soul has ported the SIMH emulator to the GBA and is using that to run the PDP-6 version of UNIX v6. Actually, looking at the stats of the (ARM-based) GBA, it would have been eye-poppingly advanced back in the late 60s. There's a great article about it at Kernelthread. Update: Thanks to Vanders on setting me straight on which version of UNIX was actually ported.
HP unveils Unix roadmaps
HP World HP will be a pitching a story of Unix harmony and advancement at its HP World user conference here this week. First up, HP has now released HP-UX 11i V2 for both its Itanium and PA-RISC based servers. This means PA-RISC customers no longer have to wait until HP-UX 11i V3 arrives to use the same operating system as their Itanium counterparts. The bad news, however, is that both sets of customers will have to wait until the second half of next year to get their hands on V3 - a product once due at the end of this year.
Unix AIX Security
This paper is meant to serve as an introductory guide to the basic security and server hardening functions present in AIX. Many of the features and functions shown throughout this guide are applicable to AIX 4.3 and above, but are more directed toward AIX 5.2. This guide attempts to cover a lot of ground and offers useful and necessary insight for anyone administering AIX machines.
Comparing Linux and AIX
Linux can learn valuable lessons from its elder cousins in the enterprise, the proprietary Unixes from the likes of IBM, Sun, and HP. Those operating systems, in turn, can learn some lessons from Linux. Comparing the features of the more enterprise-ready Linux distros with AIX, one of the leading proprietary Unixes, helps identify some.
The HP-UX Kernel: Basic Organization
The HP-UX kernel is a multitasking, multiuser, multiprocessor, multithreaded, load-leveling, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious modular operating system with real-time scheduling extensions. To get a handle on it, read this introduction to the basic organization of the kernel and its data structures.
Windows, Linux to win war over data center; UNIX Loses
Analysts report that the shift toward both Linux and Windows dominance in the data center has begun and traditional UNIX is on the way out.
Has UNIX Programming Changed in 20 Years?
With the publication of 'Advanced UNIX Programming', Second Edition, Marc Rochkind takes a look at what has changed in the 20 years since he wrote the first edition.
GNU Screen: an Introduction and Beginner’s Tutorial
Most modern Unix-based operating systems (e.g. Linux, MacOS X, and BSD) come with a little console-mode utility called GNU Screen. It's a powerful tool in the hands of the console warrior, a veritable Swiss Army knife of text-mode human-computer interaction.
IBM rises, Sun sinks in server market
IBM widened its lead in the worldwide server market in 2003 at the expense of Sun Microsystems, making particular gains in the Unix server market, new figures show. In Unix servers, No. 3 IBM saw revenue grow 13 percent to $4.1 billion. Revenue for first-place Sun shrank 16 percent to $5.4 billion, while No. 2 HP saw revenue shrink 4 percent to $5.3 billion. The overall Unix server market shrank 4 percent to $16.7 billion, while the Linux server market grew 90 percent to $2.8 billion, Gartner said.
Cross-platform packaging facility OpenPKG 2.0 released
The OpenPKG project released version 2.0 of their unique RPM-based cross-platform Unix software packaging facility.