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    Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala was officially released overnight and marked the eleventh release of the distribution. It's attractive, polished and measured, but fails "the grandma test".

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    Alarmist advice and unbacked claims by security software vendor Symantec has the Macintosh community up in arms.

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    The company is making a play to lure Unix and Linux users to its Mac OS X operating system. Will a windowing environment do the trick?

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    Windows Server 2008 is easier to install and manage than previous versions, and has many new and improved features that should encourage organisations to upgrade.

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