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BeOS reborn: 30 days with Haiku

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Haiku is a free operating system and an alternative to Linux. It celebrated its seventh birthday on 18 August, and it’s still being actively developed. Haiku is nowhere near being considered a finished product, but it’s now stable enough for everyday use. Most importantly, it’s very interesting. The design of Haiku closely mimics that of [...]

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How to catch Linux system intruders

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There’s no doubt that Linux is a secure operating system. However, nothing is perfect. Millions of lines of code are churned through the kernel every second and it only takes a single programming mistake to open a door into the operating system. If that line of code happens to face the Internet, that’s a backdoor [...]

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Apple Expo Paris 2008: the full report

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We weren’t quite sure what to expect for this year’s major European Mac show. In the weeks leading up to the event, when we asked industry insiders whether they would be attending, the response was usually along the lines of “nah, not bothering this year”. It’s not hard, at least on the surface, to see [...]

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