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    I caved in. I had all intentions of pre-emptively spending my $900 government handout on a $700 HP netbook this weekend. But I was pwned by a shiny little MacBook in about the time it took white hat Charlie Miller to hack its upscale brother, the MacBook Air.

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  • Linux hacker: The battle for the desktop

    Part II: Linux Kernel hacker Alan Cox explains why the world needs open source software on the desktop and why Linux was perfect for Iceland.

  • Linux hacker: What the future holds for Linux

    Part I: A Linux 'kernel hacker' gives his views on the GPL, 64-bit computing and why grandmothers should want to use Linux.

  • Stay ahead of hackers with the Nessus scanner

    If you want to level the playing field with hackers, you need to be able to look at your network's vulnerabilities in the same way they do.

  • UNIX tools track down hackers

    Catching malicious hackers isn't impossible. With the right tools, you can gather important information to help stop hack attacks. How can you use common UNIX tools to hunt down network attackers?

  • Firestarter: 5 minutes to a Linux firewall

    Linux firewalls offer a robust, secure, and highly flexible solution. However, manually configuring them has generally been quite labour-intensive--until now. See how Firestarter can help you build an excellent Linux firewall in minutes.

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    French Linux company MandrakeSoft takes a step away from the open-source philosophy, with a change to license terms involving customers that want support for a firewall product.

  • OLPC XO

    The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is unique as the XO laptop it distributes. While the XO is not commercially available, our review provides an insight into what can be achieved in a laptop designed for children at a very low cost.

  • Xbox gets the penguin treatment

    A hacker group specializing in software for Microsoft's Xbox has announced the release of the first full version of Linux for the game console.

  • Lindows CEO funds Xbox hacking contest

    Michael Robertson, CEO of software company Lindows, has revealed himself as the formerly anonymous donor of US$200,000 in prize money in a contest to translate the Linux operating system to Microsoft's Xbox video game console.

  • Penguin-powered iPod? Sort of

    An Australian ex-pat engineer manages to get Apple's portable MP3 player to run basic parts of the uClinux version of the Linux operating system. But it's only a rough start, he says.

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