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    Offering a free clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux turned out not to be such a simple matter after all.

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    OpenBSD developers have responded to comments made by Linus Torvalds that they are a "bunch of masturbating monkeys".

  • Torvalds criticises the 'security circus'

    Linux creator Linus Torvalds has labelled makers of the rival OpenBSD operating system a "bunch of masturbating monkeys" in a wider critique of what he said was self-centred behaviour in the IT security industry.

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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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    The world of enterprise IP telephony is varied and complex. Here's our round-up of the major players and what they can bring to your business.

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    Two flaws in open-source cryptography app could allow an attacker to add content to a digitally signed message or forge signatures.

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    Backers of Mambo are deeply divided over how to govern the open-source project.

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    The world of enterprise IP telephony is varied and complex. Here's our round-up of the major players and what they can bring to your business.

  • Intel to speed lagging Linux support

    Smarting from criticism from open-source programmers, Intel has committed to release Linux versions of essential supporting software at about the same time it releases Windows versions.

  • OpenBSD 3.3 released despite funding cut

    The latest version of the popular OpenBSD (Berkley Software Distribution) was released today, and is available for download from FTP sites.

  • Software tweak may make operating systems safer

    The OpenBSD project is making changes in its latest operating system release that it believes could eliminate a class of security bugs that has plagued computers for decades.

  • My PC wish list for 2003

    Isn't it time we took another Macintoshesque great leap forward in terms of personal computing, is 2003 going to be a year of computational revolution?

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