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Open-source software is starting to expand into the big-ticket infrastructure-software market dominated by Microsoft and others.
Security technology company Symantec reported Thursday that it has analyzed what it believes to be the first known threat to 64-bit Windows systems, a virus labeled W64.Rugrat.3344.
Open-source activist Bruce Perens uncovers the SCO-Microsoft connection behind a campaign to convince users that trade secrets of Unix have been copied into Linux.
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If you're looking for relatively straightforward Linux-based office productivity, you should have few problems with this distribution.
AMD releases its highest-speed, 64-bit capable Athlon FX processor yet. Has the wait for the best performance and value ended?
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Commentary:Historically, Intel drops a technological grenade of sorts at the doorway as it exits its current processor area, to confuse and misdirect the competition. Bill O'Brien thinks this could be the case with Intel's latest Pentium 4 release.
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