You may or may not have heard of it, but the PWN to OWN Competition is an annual competition where hackers get together to try to hack into 3 different machines: a Mac, a Linux box, and a Vista box. So far, the results have been both surprising and unsurprising as well.
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Likewise opens Windows networks to Linux, Macs
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Much has been said about the evils of vendor lock-in. The reality is that there are definite advantages to being a "Windows shop," particularly in terms of manageability and unified IT support.
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OpenOffice.org Inches Closer to Mac
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OpenOffice 2.4.x will be the last release of OpenOffice that requires the X11 system to run on a Mac. The conversion of the OpenOffice system to a native Mac OS X application has been in progress for many years and has been hampered by occasional politics, funding and manpower issues. Users have long been waiting for a native Mac version that doesn't require X11, and now it's on the way.
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Feels good to admit it... we're all running GNU/Linux (video)
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This is a Novell ad where a PC user and a Mac user talk about their cool new features... we'll then there's a twist
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Five open source Mac applications you should be using
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We focus quite a lot on Linux stuff here at FOSSwire, which is fine, because it is a very important open source system, but it’s easy to forget that there are other platforms out there, and even if the platform itself isn’t open source, there are plenty of applications you can be using which are. In this post, I’m going to run through five top open source applications for Mac OS X.
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NeoOffice - A Premium Free Office Suite for the Mac
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NeoOffice 2.2.2 is a sharp office productivity suite similar to Microsoft Office for the Mac, and has many features which surpass it. Unlike MS Office, however, NeoOffice is open source and therefore free. Like Office, it includes a word processor called NeoOffice Writer, Calc, a spreadsheet builder, a polished presentation program, Impress, and a database program called Base.
Read more »KDE goes cross-platform with Windows, Mac OS X support
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The open-source KDE desktop environment is making the jump across platforms with broad support for Windows and Mac OS X. The core KDE desktop programs, the KOffice suite, and the Amarok music player are actively being ported.
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FUD Alert! Vista Security Report Card
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Microsoft creates FUD as it reports that Windows Vista has logged fewer vulnerabilities in its first year than XP, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Apple Mac OS X did in their first years.
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Liberating Macbook Pro
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I’ve always wanted to install Ubuntu on my Mac. So I decided to give myself little christmas present and finally get it done. Here’s my experiences with running Linux on Intel Mac.
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Setting yourself up with the right operating system
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Now there is also a new kid in town called Linux, and although it has been around in one form or another since 1991, it's now starting to attract the attention of disenchanted Windows users.
What makes Linux special is that it runs on any Windows PC and it is Open Source software. This basically means it can be downloaded for free from the internet (www.linux.org).
Linux Vs. Mac: Which Is The Better Alternative To Microsoft Windows?
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If you're a Vista-wary Windows user who would rather switch than fight, should you move to a Linux distro or Apple's OS X? We asked a Mac fan and a Linux advocate to lead a guided tour of each OS.
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Ubuntu 7.04 on a MacBook
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Now I’ve tried installing Ubuntu on my Mac before, actually just around the time I purchased my MacBook, but many features were on an experimental level back then if they even existed, but I figured that with this new Ubuntu-release, MacBook-support should’ve matured.
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