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• IBM's Power systems business is growing for the first time in years

  A few years ago, you wouldn't have bet on IBM Power systems having much of a future. But a new strategy to embrace Linux and open up the platform is starting to pay off.

• Suse enterprise Linux can take your system back in time

  The newest enterprise edition of the Suse Linux distribution allows administrators to go back in time, for instance, to immediately before they made that fatal system-crippling mistake.

• Canonical celebrates Cloud freedoms with new Ubuntu

  Canonical continues to aggressively equip its flagship Ubuntu Linux server software with more tools to help users build and run clouds.

• Red Hat gears RHEL for the long haul

  Knowing how system administrators enjoy continuity, Red Hat has designed the latest release of its flagship Linux distribution to be run, with support, until 2024.

• Oracle subpoenas Comcast in connection with Solaris support lawsuit

  Oracle and Comcast are locked in a legal tussle related to Oracle's intellectual-property lawsuit against Solaris OS support providers Terix and Maintech.

• HP expects first x86 Nonstop systems next year

  Hewlett-Packard is eyeing 2015 for the release of its first Nonstop systems based on x86 server hardware, a company official said this week.

• Oracle Solaris update plays nice with OpenStack

  Oracle has gotten cloud religion.

• Oracle wants an illegal monopoly on Solaris support, company alleges

  An independent Solaris OS support provider has countersued Oracle for unfair competition and violation of U.S. antitrust laws.

• New OpenSUSE embraces 64-bit ARM

  Joining Fedora and Ubuntu, the new version of the community driven OpenSUSE can now be run on AArch64 processors, further preparing the market for servers running on the new 64-bit ARM architecture.

• Queensland Health seeks servers for UNIX hardware replacement project

  The Queensland Department of Health has invited bids to install servers for a UNIX hardware replacement project.

• 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made 30 years ago

  It was 30 years ago today -- which is to say Sept. 27, 1983 -- that the seeds were planted for both Linux and the open source software movement, though neither is called that name by the man who help set both of them into motion, the irascible Richard Stallman.

• Oracle, managed services provider to settle suit over third-party support

  Oracle and managed services provider ServiceKey have come to a proposed settlement of an intellectual-property lawsuit Oracle filed against the company last year.

• Quest extends Unix Sudo tool

  Reflecting the growing need for automation tools in the enterprise, Quest Software has released a software package that could help Unix administrators better manage policy files that determine which users can access privileged material and programs on Unix and Linux systems.

• Usenix: Dartmouth expanding diff, grep Unix tools

  With some funding from Google and the U.S. Energy Department, a pair of computer scientists at Dartmouth University are updating the venerable grep and diff Unix command line utilities to handle more complex types of data.

• Oracle Solaris goes to 11

  Oracle has updated its Unix-based operating system Solaris, adding some features that would make the OS more suitable for running cloud deployments, as well as integrating it more tightly with other Oracle products, the company announced Wednesday.