What better place to start our first-half free software roundup than at the OS level? Canonical's Linux-based PC operating system, Ubuntu, may not have anywhere near the market share of Microsoft ...

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In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

Penetration testing, hack testing, and password cracking: Free utilities are out there to help you do all these tasks and more I frequently thank vendors and developers for releasing cool, free, ...