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 ...

Intel Corp. has acquired Opened Hand, a London-based company which specializes in mobile Linux development and services. "Opened Hand brings great expertise and technology in the area of ...

In an effort to counter the growing dominance of Microsoft’s Windows OS in netbooks, Intel on Tuesday announced a beta version of a Linux OS it has developed for low-cost laptops and mobile devices.

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 ...

If you’ve tried installing Ubuntu or other GNU/Linux-based operating systems on a computer with an Intel Atom Bay Trail or Cherry Trail processor, there’s a decent chance you ran into problems with ...

Eschewing its own SUSE Linux, Novell Inc. said today that it will back Intel Corp.’s Moblin Linux in the fast-growing market for netbooks and smartphones. Novell is creating a version of Moblin for ...

I want to build a little intel atom linux box that will be a command line simple ftp and file server. Noise and cost are primary concerns, and small footprint would be nice too, so a PicoPSU might be ...

Intel is debuting new members of its Atom family of microprocessors today that can be the brains of everything from low-power laptops to razor-thin netbooks. To show off the new technology at the ...

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 ...

Intel Corporation has acquired Opened Hand, a London-based company which specialises in mobile Linux development and services. Opened Hand will focus on participating in the Moblin Software Platform ...