The success of Linux as a desktop operating system, and the appeal of its open source technology, might provoke one to dream of applying it to embedded systems. After all, embedded systems run on the ...

Linux might have gotten its start in the PC world, but it is quickly becoming a major force in embedded applications. In the last quarter, for example, Motorola shipped 1 million Linux-based cell ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

In his Oct. 1 column, Michael Gartenberg claimed that Linux is still far from making it on the desktop. As someone who has tracked Linux’s progress since 1991 and the progress of the IT industry since ...

The effort to standardize the way Linux works has moved several steps closer to reality in the last two weeks. The effort, through Linux Standard Base (LSB) and several other projects, is Linux's ...

Of course, in the real world, at least for now, most people are coming from Windows. Which means you can have distros that ...

WASHINGTON – Here was a speaker at a Linux enterprise conference telling the audience that Linux isn’t the best choice for every IT need. Linux and other open source software products in many cases ...

Sometimes, if you want something badly enough, you need to get off your lazy tuchus and make it happen yourself. For years now, I’ve been hoping and pining (and often complaining and whining) about ...

I do not know much about linux, ive never run it. <BR>I perceive linux as being difficult, difficult to install, difficult to get hardware drivers. im pretty sure ...

Ever read a story so depressing, so utterly devoid of happiness, that you wonder why on Earth any fool would take the time to write it down? Just solid sadness beginning to end. This, right here, is ...