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As the professor of security engineering at Cambridge University, Ross Anderson is one of the founders of security economics as an academic discipline. Perhaps more impressively, though, he wants your ISP to send you cash every time you get spam.

25 years on from the birth of GNU, we pick the brains of three Linux luminaries.

GNU/Linux offers a bewildering variety of flavors -- or distributions, as they're called. To a newcomer's eye, many of these seem virtually identical to each other.Yet, the more you learn about a distribution and the community that surrounds it, the more different they become.

The plan: Ring in the new year by switching over to Linux for a week, documenting each day of the transition.

People have talked for years about Google taking Microsoft on with its own Linux desktop. Guess what? Google may already have sneaked a Linux desktop out without anyone noticing... until now.

The Wine development release 1.1.12 is now available.

Take Ubuntu or Fedora wherever you go. Nothing can beat having a great Linux distro installed on a super-fast hard drive, with all your favourite apps configured just how you like them and all your files at your fingertips.

The free and open source software community has been waiting for the G1 cell phone since it was first announced in July. Source code for Google's Android mobile platform has been available, but the G1 marks its commercial debut. It's clearly a good device, but is it what Linux boosters and FOSS advocates have long been anticipating?

While 2008 has been a bleak year for the financial markets and the global economy, it has been very kind to open source, at least based on market share. A review of Net Applications data suggests that there has never been a better time for open source; however, as Google Trends data suggests, it's no longer enough to rest on one's laurels....

As Apple demonstrated on the desktop, the way to beat Microsoft is not at its own game, but by changing the nature and, hence, the rules of the game. Min suggests that Linux gaming may be the key to beating Windows-plus-Office, in part because the demographics of gamers mesh well with the demographics of Linux users..

OpenOffice.org developer and Novell employee Michael Meeks calls OpenOffice "profoundly sick" and chides Sun for retaining too much control over the project for its own good. He's right, and here's why.

You may not see it, but we've already had several years of the Linux desktop. In fact, if you think about it, almost all of you, even those of you who would never leave Windows, are already using Linux desktop applications every day.

The Debian Project has lost an active member of its community. Thiemo Seufer died on December 26th in a tragic car accident.Thiemo was involved in Debian in many ways. He has maintained several packages and was the main supporter of the Debian port to the MIPS architectures. He was also a member of our kernel team, ...

The Ubuntu Linux distribution builds on the rich history and deep roots of Debian. Ars explains why Debian still matters and looks at the shared history and mutual destiny of the two popular Linux distributions.

Some toolkits aim to create entirely new ways of envisioning and creating projects that appeal to younger minds, such as games and animations, while others aim to recreate the "basic"-ness of BASIC in a modern language and environment.

Version 2.6.28 of the Linux kernel has officially been released. Ars takes a look at some of the new features, including the ext4 filesystem and the new GEM GPU memory manager.

Open Source Software is about more than just the Linux operating system, and 2008 brought advances in the form of OpenOffice.org, IBM Lotus Symphony, Firefox and Android. But Linux is still the heart of the FOSS movement, and this year brought key developments in the operating system as well. Here's a look at the coolest open source products.....

Whatever you do, 2009 is looking to be a big year. That no exception when it comes to Linux. Applications and large projects continue to develop and make major releases multiple times per year. And while every year people predict that the next might be “The Year” for Linux adoption, here’s a list of some major products and trends that will play..

Here's a few attractive apps which could become powerful contributors to the widespread adoption of the Linux desktop. We need to get stable, functional, user-friendly apps out. Linux does have some cool stuff available, but we often forget that a lot of it also depends on the interface. So climb aboard, let's spread the freedom.