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Could low-cost subnotebooks be a stepping stone for Linux to make its way onto standard-sized laptops? Judging by a new VNUnet report, that may well...

Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Linux-Unix

As I mentioned in one of the comments I posted in last Friday's FNT, I was planning on taking a laptop running Ubuntu 8.04...

Type: Blog post Tags: Linux-Unix

Hans Reiser, perhaps best known as the creator of the ReiserFS and Reiser4 file systems for Linux, will be spending the next quarter of a...

Type: News story Tags: Software Linux-Unix

The latest release of Canonical's hugely popular Ubuntu Linux distribution is available at last. The 700MB Ubuntu 8.04 installer disc image can be grabbed in...

Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Linux-Unix

Could this be the first step to a version of Photoshop for Linux? Perhaps it's too early to say, but the fact remains: Adobe

Type: News story Tags: Software Linux-Unix

The Eee PC has been lauded for promoting a free, open-source Linux operating system, and current Eees all come pre-installed with a Xandros-based distribution. However,...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Operating systems Windows Linux-Unix

Although Everex generated a fair amount of hype for selling a bargain-basement-priced, Linux-powered PC through Wal-Mart stores, the publicity apparently wasn't strong enough to...

Type: News story Tags: Systems Operating systems Linux-Unix

If your PC has a FireWire port, setting a login password may not be enough to keep others away from your data—at least, not so...

Type: News story Tags: Software Operating systems Windows Linux-Unix

When Shuttle unveiled its low-cost kPC desktop at CES in January, word was that the machine would come pre-loaded with a copy of the...

Type: News story Tags: Systems Linux-Unix

Californian PC maker Everex made a name for itself after years of obscurity last November when it unveiled the gPC, a $199 Linux-powered desktop...

Type: News story Tags: Systems Linux-Unix

What if installing a Linux distribution was as easy as installing Firefox? So far, the setup process for most Linux distributions has involved booting from...

Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Linux-Unix

After enacting a long campaign of fear, uncertainty, and doubt over possible lawsuits against open-source software companies, Microsoft has turned around and announced what...

Type: News story Tags: Software Operating systems Windows Linux-Unix Copyright

Going along with yesterday's forum tidings topic, we've noticed that Google has made a move that could lead more graphic artists and designers to...

Type: News story Tags: Software Linux-Unix

In the Linux Foundation's "Open Voices" podcast, Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds has sounded off on desktop Linux and why he believes the operating system...

Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows Linux-Unix

January 17, 2008   We were finally able to make it up to the mountains again to finish what we...

Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Linux-Unix Networking

Have you ever fancied Linux-only applications, all the while being unable to come to grips with the operating system itself? A handful of apps made...

Type: News story Tags: Software Windows Mac Linux-Unix

Chinese PC vendor Lenovo will soon start offering Linux as an option on some of its popular ThinkPad business notebooks, according to a report...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Operating systems Linux-Unix

Following the success of the $199 gPC it introduced in November, Everex has made no secret over the past few weeks that it...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Linux-Unix