Ubuntu isn't a bad distro—you're just using it on the wrong machine.

While the usual server news was plentiful at the LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco last week, a few announcements were made of new laptops that let users get personal with the Linux kernel. HP led the ...

As Dell Inc. approaches its one-year anniversary of selling laptop and desktop computers preloaded with Ubuntu Linux, the company is continuing to expand the fledgling program to new computer models ...

There are lots of laptops—maybe all of them—on which you can run a Linux desktop. There are a few vendors that offer laptops with extensive Linux compatibility. And then there are a select few that ...

There are a growing number of options for folks that want to buy a laptop that comes with Linux rather than Windows or OS X. But most of those options come with an Intel processor. A handful have ARM ...

Dell last week made two moves aimed at getting Linux into the hands of more desktop end-users in the consumer markets as well as small businesses. Dell and Mandriva, the European Linux firm formerly ...

Notably, software vendor Lindows.com, San Diego, announced earlier this month that its LindowsOS Laptop Edition would be bundled by Taiwanese system builder Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) into ...

When balanced mode secretly behaves like performance.

MediaTek MT7902 wireless modules are used in many Windows laptops, but so far, a Linux driver has been missing. This is about ...

With the growing mobile workforce, IT administrators who run their critical applications on Linux are now faced with the requirement to install Linux on laptops ...