One of the defining characteristics of Unix is modularity – the operating system shell provides a set of small and flexible utilities (such as grep, sed and awk) that can be “glued” together to ...

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This issue of the Network World on Web Applications newsletter is a milestone: The 800th issue! That means our 900th issue will be Oct. 2 next year and the grand 1,000th issue is due Sept. 16, 2008.

Microsoft has raised an alarm about a peculiar cybersecurity threat that serves as a warning to all enterprises about open-source software (OSS) supply chain security. The Microsoft Threat ...

Nginx Plus, the commercial edition of the open source Web server that’s elbowed out Apache HTTPD on many top-traffic sites, unveiled its fourth major version today. Officially named Nginx Plus r4, ...

I find it amusing that Windows is often called the server platform with the most applications, simply because it has traditionally been the platform with the most desktop applications. But if Windows ...

How to install the Caddy web server on Ubuntu Server 22.04 Your email has been sent If you're looking for a lightweight, flexible web server for static sites, web ...

Open-source advocate Bruce Perens has launched an initiative to discourage owners of undeveloped Web domains from hosting them on servers running proprietary software. Perens wants domain owners and ...

The developers behind the popular open-source Web server software Nginx have released updates to patch a serious vulnerability. The vulnerability rates as "highly ...

I'd like to walk you through the complete process of creating an up-to-date open-source server for Ragnarok Online using rAthena. This includes removing all of its security so that it can be accessed ...

After spending 20 months trying to use the Internet to bring together corporate IT workers and open-source software developers to collaborate on technology projects, CollabNet Inc. has shut down its ...