Up until now, Mac OS X and Linux users had been left out of the social—that is to say they haven’t been able to use the Microsoft Zune with their operating system. “Until now” because the library ...

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Let's start right off by tackling the most pertinent question for this article: why the heck would someone want to run Linux on a Mac system that already has a very nice Linux distro hidden beneath ...

Could we possibly find an individual more unlike Linus Torvalds? We are told Jobs is ill-tempered, mean, merciless, unconscionable and abusive to those that work with and for him. We are told to trust ...

Mac hacker Josh Juran has built an emulator, dubbed Advanced Mac Substitute (AMS), which promises to run old Mac apps compiled for Motorola 68000-series CPUs on modern hardware. With Apple's Macintosh ...

Microsoft is planning to open source the full server-side .NET core stack and to take that open-sourced .NET core to Linux and Mac OS X, alongside Windows. Microsoft officials announced the company's ...

Mac users looking for the best gaming performance from their Apple hardware will be excited to hear about the latest OpenGL drivers meeting industry standards. What will come as a bigger shock is that ...

No, Macs have never been a serious gamer’s first choice. But when even Linux-based systems are climbing past Apple’s computers on Steam’s hardware list, you start to wonder. Steam’s monthly hardware ...

Decisions made years ago about which operating system to roll out can affect corporate security today. Of the big three in widespread use, one can credibly be called the most secure. Enterprises ...

No matter what OS you use, you need to think about security. But what happens when you don't have time to think? Turn to Ars! We've got you covered with five freeware or shareware security tools for ...

With my Basic Guide to Days of Risk to provide an introduction, I wanted to do a check up on days-of-risk for 2006 for Windows and the main Enterprise OS distributions. Also, I thought it would be ...