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Linux, not Mac OS X, is the most likely operating system to benefit once Microsoft stops supporting Windows XP. Although Windows might cede some market share, it's likely to remain dominant in both PC ...

Could we possibly find an individual more unlike Linus Torvalds? We are told Jobs is ill-tempered, mean, merciless, unconscionable and abusive to those that work with and for him. We are told to trust ...

Mac hacker Josh Juran has built an emulator, dubbed Advanced Mac Substitute (AMS), which promises to run old Mac apps compiled for Motorola 68000-series CPUs on modern hardware. With Apple's Macintosh ...

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As interest in the open source Linux operating system has become more mainstream, companies such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard have joined the UK's major Linux trade show, Linux Expo UK. At this year's ...

No matter what OS you use, you need to think about security. But what happens when you don’t have time to think? Turn to Ars! We’ve got you covered with five freeware or shareware security tools for ...

A lot of things happen at the start of each month, and one of those that I look most forward to is being able to check out the updated hardware survey at Steam. It's especially interesting right now, ...

For years, Linux lagged in the aesthetics department, focusing more on functionality than on form. That’s no longer true. A ...

If you’re like me and happen to have a bunch of vintage Macs powered by Motorola 680×0 CPUs lying around, then you probably like to tinker with them. And what better way to tinker with obsolete ...

As a fairly new desktop Linux user I've been a distro-hopping fanatic, exploring the functionality and key differences between the array of excellent options out there. While a "forever distro" is the ...

The forthcoming autobiography from Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system and figurehead of the open source movement, “Just For Fun,” disses Mac OS X, according to a Yahoo article.