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Linux went from being a cool personal hack in a bedroom to software that would eventually change world just over 21 years ago when Linus ...

I'm sure most people remember DEC - Digital Equipment Corporation - that later rebranded itself as the singularly unmemorable “Digital” ...

This is big: Intel Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wind River Systems Inc, under which Intel will acquire all...

It seems appropriate on Ada Lovelace Day to note the move of one of the best-known female champions of open source from Intel to the startup...

CollabNet has a fascinating history that goes back to 1999, when Collab.Net launched SourceXchange: a site where companies can post proposal...

One of my regular themes on this blog is how open source is moving beyond the infrastructual programs it best known for – GNU/Linux, Apache,...

The good news : Xandros is known for its Windows-like Linux distribution, which has been dubbed by one DesktopLinux reviewer as "the be...

Here's another reason why ultraportables are going to take off.

OLPC's XO has been much in the headlines recently. If you want to find out it all from someone who knows, there's a good interview ...

The OLPC XO-1 project has been something of a roller-coaster ride. Widely praised when it launched, and then progressively pooh-poohed (inc...

I've noted before that Microsoft is in difficulty over the ultra-mobile machines like the Asus EEE PC; now it seems that the other half...

As I was saying : The Eee PC has attracted so much attention worldwide that other vendors, including China's Hasee Computer, want to gr...

It's interesting that whenever people try to come up with low-cost machines for developing countries, the answer is GNU/Linux. The OLPC...

One of the under-appreciated strengths of GNU/Linux is its wide platform support. So what? you might sniff: the only platform that matters ...

This looks very tasty : The Asus Eee PC 701 notebook * Display: 7" * Processor: Intel mobile CPU (Intel 910 chipset, 900MHz Dot...

Can Ubuntu do no wrong? First Dell , now this : To fulfil the aims of our mission and in response to the technical challenges that these de...

Maybe I'm an incorrigible optimist, but these look hopeful signs : The U.S. Supreme Court made it easier to challenge patents for failin...

Oh, here's a good idea : let patent experts help decide whether or not to grant lots more patents. And if you need proof this is not g...

Here's a thorough journalistic investigation into why manufacturers of wireless hardware have been less than helpful to the free softwa...

What's most interesting about Intel's new SuiteTwo is that nobody's done it before (at least to my knowledge). And yet the ide...