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• OS X Gains U.S. Army As A Customer 22 hours, 48 minutes ago
  
  As a computer user, it’s easy for me to just think about everyday people like myself using operating systems. Just like me, they go to a store like Best Buy or The Apple Store, purchase an operating system, install it, and then use it for work or play, sometimes both. In the case of Linux, maybe they’ve downloaded it and have access to it in that way. Of course, aside from individuals, corporations also use operating systems, and they use them on a scale and in a way that we can’t even begin to imagine, since many of us just fire up our computers in our home office to do some simple Web browsing.
• Carrier-Grade Mac OS X, anyone? 2 weeks ago
  
  MontaVista Software announced that its Carrier Grade Linux distribution supports P.A. Semi's "PWRficient" dual-core 2GHz PowerPC processor. The news comes only a week after Apple revealed plans to acquire P.A., a fabless semiconductor firm.
• Linux vs. Mac OS X vs. Windows Vista vs. Windows XP 1 month, 1 week ago
  
  Since the dawn of time -- or, at least, the dawn of personal computers -- the holy wars over desktop operating systems have raged, with each faction proclaiming the unrivaled superiority of its chosen OS and the vile loathsomeness of all others.
• Safari on Windows: decidedly not illegal (plus, font fixes!) 1 month, 2 weeks ago
  
  It's being widely reported this morning that Safari on Windows is "illegal." This is completely false, but we understand why outlets are reporting this.
• Apple is loser in three-way hacking contest 1 month, 2 weeks ago
  
  An Apple Mac was the first victim in a hacker shoot-out to determine which operating system is the most secure.
• Why Apple Should Not Open It's Mobile Platform 1 month, 3 weeks ago
  
  The recent trend in the tech space is to open everything and let go of closed standards. Obviously the tech industry is following the Web closely with its excitement around open networks and platforms where users can interact with one another and form like-minded communities.
• Mozilla to Apple: Show Your Hand 2 months, 1 week ago
  
  A Mozilla developer, currently working on the 3.0 release of the browser, raised a ruckus when he expressed some frustration in a blog post yesterday over Apple's lack of proper OS documentation.
• Wishing Apple Into the Enterprise Won't Get It There 2 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Never forget that you'll never move into a technical leadership position in government or business by throwing sticks of pseudo-intellectual dynamite through the corridors of the company. That, gentle readers, is the cultural change that's required before Apple can truly penetrate the enterprise.
• The Real Reason Why Linux and Mac OS X Are More Secure Than Windows – Via Kaspersky 2 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  picture Security is, along with market share, one of the most relevant aspects of the face-off between Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. And although Microsoft's proprietary operating system wins by a landslide in terms of install base, while Linux and Mac OS X struggle to gather an audience, the two rival platforms have always boasted superior security. But while the number of users of a certain operating system can be easily approximated, not the same can be said about security. In fact, security is a multifaceted characteristic for which a variety of factors have to be taken into consideration, starting from the threat environment to the volume of vulnerabilities.
• PGP: Whole disk encryption for Mac OS X is 'in active development' 3 months ago
  
  PGP Corp. is planning to release a version of its whole-disk encryption software for Apple Macintosh computers running OS X.
• Porting OS X to Cheaper PCs: Possible? 3 months, 1 week ago
  
  Ever since Apple’s hardware made the jump to Intel processors, there’s been an active community involvement in getting the Intel version of OS X to run on the standard personal computers that the majority of users have. Let’s face it, Apple’s hardware is nice and shiny, but despite the price drops, it’s still more expensive than most of the budget options that are in the market.
• Torvalds pans Apple with 'utter crap' putdown 3 months, 1 week ago
  
  Apple's much-touted new operating system, OS X Leopard, is in some ways worse than Windows Vista, says the founder of the Linux open source project, Linus Torvalds.
• Leopard Server: The people's Unix 3 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Apple's desktop Macs are incomparably well suited for the full range of uses from general productivity to technical and creative design, with the entire user skill and requirements spectrum covered by a rich, engaging, intuitive platform. It took Apple several years to get its head out of hardware long enough to perfect its client software. But the combination of broad feature set and usability that Apple brings to desktops, with the idea that one can sit down and start working immediately, didn't stand a chance of making it to servers.
• Call to Apple: Please Open Mac OS X (or Others Will) 3 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  This article is about new aspects of the never-ending story of how Apple is protecting MacOS X for running on different hardware than Apple's. The keyword is virtualization, which allows running unmodified version of Mac OS X as virtualized instance.
• Microsoft Must Reinvent Itself, Learn from Apple 3 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Believe it or not, Microsoft's biggest flaw has little to do with the countless security issues with previous releases of their operating system. No, it's actually a problem with the way the company collectively decides what the user wants.
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