Stories about: Jaguar

About five months after IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer became the fastest computer in the world, Cray Inc.'s XT Jaguar could dethrone it next week.

Bill Kendrick is a software machine. He is the lead designer and developer of New Breed Software, a company creating free and open source games, libraries, tools and utilities across a range of operating systems, mobile devices, hand held and home video consoles. He has personally created a diverse range of classic Web-based games that run across all browsers, and has worked as a professional video game developer since 2003.

Now that Apple has blessed its users with a release date for the next version of Mac OS X -- it's the 26th, in case you didn't hear -- the next order of business for anyone planning to upgrade is to step back, take a breath, put down the credit card and think things through a little.

Apple Computer has fixed a number of security holes in Mac OS X, some of which could allow remote attackers to take over a system.

Apple Computer has released its second major security update in as many weeks, fixing 20 bugs in the "Jaguar" version of the Mac OS X operating system. The most serious of the flaws could allow remote attacks, Apple said.

With the newest release of The SCO Group's UnixWare, it could be said that this variety of Unix is starting to look a lot more like Linux -- even if SCO lawyers pulled the Linux Kernel Personality modules from the operating system during the course of our testing last month.

Apple Computer's latest OS/X code provides a boost in functionality, VPN support, Microsoft network compatibility and ease of administration, but not a noticeable performance increase.

Upcoming CPUs from AMD and Apple suggest 64-bit computing will come to a PC near you as soon as this spring.

Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs introduced an Apple-built Web browser, dubbed Safari, during his Macworld Conference & Expo keynote today. Dubbed as the "turbo browser for Mac OS X," it's the first major new browser in five years and "it's sweet," Jobs said.

If you run Gentoo Linux or Sorcerer, patch your kernel code by hand or compose complicated HTML pages using vi, this URL isn't for you.

Apple Computer Wednesday released the code for its networking protocol, Rendezvous, which enables computers to recognize such things as printers and consumer electronics devices over wireless networks without the need for any configuration by end users.