I'm thinking about upgrading the hardware my linux file server runs on. The main driving factor is that my new computers (i5 760 and i3 2100) are so nice and quiet that the old linux box is now the ...

During OSCON last week, I met with Canonical's Pete Goodall to discuss the company's strategy for Ubuntu in the mobile market. Although he could not tell me any specifics regarding plans for upcoming ...

Over the past few years a number of companies have released small desktop computers with Intel Atom processors. Some ship with Windows software. Some have Linux. And others have no operating system at ...

Chipmaker has released information on its next-generation Atom processor and the beta of the Moblin 2.0 Linux operating system. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

The ever-growing popularity of diminutive, cheap laptops like the EeePC and its brethren have convinced Canonical, makers of Ubuntu Linux, to release a new "netbook remix" of Ubuntu optimized for such ...

At the Intel Developer Forum last week, the Santa Clara company said that its upcoming Clover Trail Atom processor -- the dual-core version of Medfield that will debut with cheap Windows 8 laptops and ...

Windows has long dominated the desktop and notebook scene; even today, the Microsoft-built operating system holds over 90% of the market share for PCs globally. Nearly 9 out of every 10 computers in ...