One of the longest running battles in the computer industry has been between open systems and closed proprietary ones. The term closed refers to systems where the standards are set by the manufacturer

Leigh Dyer looks at Sun’s attempts to keep Solaris relevant in a Linux world.

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In the early-to-mid 'nineties, the industry was buzzing with speculation about the 'new' 32-bit computing platform and, more importantly, how it would integrate into the 16-bit environment.

We test the big three OSes on level ground - Boot Camp.

Want to break free from a Microsoft world? Leigh Dyer looks at the alternatives.

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Sun UltraSPARC In 1995, eight years after the first SPARC Station was introduced, Sun went 64-bit with the debut of its UltraSPARC I RISC processor; the first model ran at 143MHz and had 128-bi

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PC Authority takes a trip down computer memory lane and discovers just how PC technology has evolved... and how Microsoft and IBM nearly destroyed each other.

We provide the commentary on a bruising eight-round battle between Vista and Tiger.

Tertiary education goes a long way. Edward Mandla looks at the options.

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Windows Vista beaten to the punch by Linux? Unthinkable!

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Run Windows apps on Linux by running Windows itself. Leigh Dyer shows you how.

Leigh Dyer shows you how to free your ASP.NET applications from Microsoft's grasp with Mono

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I've recently spent a couple of weeks on site at a client running a Linux training course and dabbling with the popular and powerful Web-caching package, Squid.