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 ...

Keep that creaky old PC alive with an optimized and stripped-down Linux distro.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...