Bashing Microsoft for being closed and proprietary has been a popular pastime in the media and the IT industry for many years, and there is no doubt that much of this has been well deserved.
After having its wings clipped on several occasions by regulators, however, the Microsoft of today, while not totally reformed, is a [...]
Even before Linux was created, Microsoft has been scorned by members of the free-software community. Its products are decried as defective by design, and its sometimes questionable business practices as an obstacle to technological innovation. That’s old news. What amazes me is Apple’s track record for openness is even worse than Microsoft’s.
Apple, while [...]
As a director of the Linux Foundation and a Linux SCSI developer, James Bottomley opened the Linux-Kongress in Hamburg, Germany this week with a keynote investigating the commonalities and differences among the various Open Source operating systems. He describes Linux as the liveliest variant among them.
The British developer didn’t mince words. In a short historical [...]
Google unveiled the first Android-powered cell phone last week, a T-Mobile-branded device dubbed the G1. Comparisons to Apple’s iPhone were immediate — and that is a good thing for Android, when you consider what a raucous and contentious week it was for iPhone developers.
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Apple has decided to block streaming content from http://apple.com/trailers/ for Linux users. I say this because tonight I went to view a few of the upcoming movie trailers and was told to “Get the Latest Quicktime” in order to watch and I was denied the ability to watch them.
I hit the forums to see [...]
TWO AND A HALF years ago Microsoft discontinued its Internet Explorer for Mac and the firm recommended users migrate to Apple’s Safari. Today, the MSN video page tells Mac users to use Firefox.
Microsoft killed its proprietary IE engine for Mac OS X and removed it from the firms’ download pages in early 2006, suggesting at [...]
A lot of people view Windows as Linux’s main competition, largely because Microsoft has, by far, the majority of the market and is considered “the standard†by most people. Mark Shuttleworth and I disagree.
The Var Guy, and plenty of other people, are reporting that Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, said during his keynote at OSCON, [...]
Ahead of its official opening on Saturday, Apple offered a look inside its flagship store in Beijing on Thursday — it’s first in China.
The two-level store is in Beijing’s Sanlitun [ph:SAHN LEE TWUN] entertainment district, which is about 6 kilometers northeast of Tiananmen Square. The store, which is Apple’s 219th worldwide, is overshadowed by another [...]
Recently a blog post entitled “Why Desktop Linux is its own worst enemy has come across my feed-radar a few times. It’s yet another in the long line of “Linux ain’t ready yet†jeremiads and it doesn’t really say anything new yet it got on my nerves. Why?
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Like many such pieces, this one starts [...]
Apple Inc.’s operating system market share has increased by nearly 32% in the last year, according to data collected by an Internet metrics company.
Last month, Apple’s Mac OS X accounted for 7.94% of the operating systems powering computers that accessed the 40,000 Web sites Net Applications monitors for its clients, the company reported [...]
Apple’s OS X, which has been an official certified Unix system for some time now, is often installed onto Internet-exposed or intranet-only Web servers for serving up dynamic content. I’ve worked with such configurations for a couple of years, and with GNU/Linux alternatives for even longer. There are at least three reasons why GNU/Linux systems [...]
Apple and Microsoft are both in a situation where they are essentially forced, due to past mistakes or a lack of foresight, to spend a significant amount of time making behind-the-scenes changes. In this time, Linux could potentially get a real leg up on other OSs.
First, what happened with Microsoft and Apple? In Microsoft’s case, [...]
Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard, may only be six months old, but rumours are already abound as to the next update to Apple’s operating system. According to several sources, it’s going to be called Snow Leopard, it won’t contain any major new features, and is planned to go gold master December 2008, available a month [...]
Apple has updated its Leopard operating system by releasing Mac OS X 10.5.3. “The Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update is recommended for Mac OS X 10.5, 10.5.1, and 10.5.2 Leopard. It includes general operating system improvements that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac.”
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Public embarrassment at a hacking contest and vulnerability disclosures for a new browser made for a discouraging week for Mac security folks.
It was one security embarrassment after another for Apple the week of March 24.
It began at the CanSecWest show, where the annual hacker contest challenged attendees to compromise a Vista system, a Ubuntu Linux [...]
The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio, that remained undefeated as conference organizers ended a three-way computer hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference.
Earlier this week, contest sponsors had put three laptops up [...]
The OpenOffice.org Mac Porting team has announced the third development snapshot of its Aqua version of OpenOffice for Mac OS X. The most recent version is still a “snapshot,” not yet beta, and has many improvements. However, the release still has some things that do not work correctly, and users are sternly warned that data [...]
Apple updated its Safari Web browser for Mac and Windows on Tuesday and offered the new version for download from its Web site. The company also began pushing the browser to Windows users — whether it was previously installed or not — via the Apple Software Update, a practice Mozilla CEO John Lilly said is [...]
Everyone likes a good “I’m a Mac/I’m a PC” commercial, but how do you really decide between today’s operating systems?
All the major OSs run on Intel chips, so the playing field has leveled quite a bit. Running multiple operating systems on each computer you own, be it a Mac or a PC, is no big [...]
A Macintosh IIci — with 25 MHz of CPU power — equipped with NetBSD is currently serving up Web pages and somehow surviving.
If you want to turn your ancient Mac into a server, start here (to use Mac software and find out about other ancient Mac servers), or here (to use NetBSD).
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