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Inveneo Computing Station

Reviews The Inveneo Computing Station delivers reasonably good performance for a low-power PC. It's small, but an untidy assembly means it could be more convenient to handle.

Wednesday, February 20 2008 03:45 PM

IBM warms to desktop Linux

News IBM's other Linux shoe could drop Monday, as Big Blue is expected to endorse the idea of Linux on desktop computers at a conference.

Monday, November 10 2003 08:27 AM

Desktop Linux a vehicle for pirating Windows

News Consulting firm reports that about 40 percent of Linux PCs will be modified to run an illegal copy of Windows.

Thursday, September 30 2004 11:44 AM

Tags: Linux, Open source, windows alerts

HP to offer Suse desktop Linux to small businesses

News Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop will be offered with the HP Compaq dc5850 to business and education customers in the United States for US$519.

Monday, December 15 2008 12:09 PM

Tags: Business applications, Linux, Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Small Business, Novell Inc., Desktop Linux, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, SuSE

MontaVista boasts one-second boot-up

News Embedded Linux vendor sets the next benchmark in the race to fast boot times, with its latest demonstration showing a system going from cold boot to "fully operational" in one second.

Wednesday, July 15 2009 06:21 PM

Tags: Linux, Open source, Linux Company, operating system, Environment, Dashboard, Embedded Linux, Linux, Open source, Web

10 predictions for Linux and open source in 2009

Techguide The year holds a great deal of promise for the Linux OS and open source software--from an explosion in the mobile arena to widespread adoption of OpenOffice 3, says industry watcher.

Sunday, February 01 2009 01:15 PM

Tags: Open source, Linux, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., KDE, File System, GNOME, Ubuntu, operating system, GNOME 2.24

China's Red Flag joins Linux consortium

News Red Flag Software, a Chinese seller of the open-source operating system, has joined Open Source Development Labs.

Wednesday, January 12 2005 10:17 AM

Tags: Open source

E-mail 'crucial' to future of desktop Linux

News Spread of open source on the desktop could falter unless e-mail applications improve, a new study says.

Friday, December 02 2005 08:22 AM

Tags: Desktops, Linux desktop OS, E-mail clients, Open source

Novell's shift to open source makes slow progress

News Two years after Novell first mooted a company migration to Linux, 60 percent of its staff can still boot Windows at work.

Wednesday, April 12 2006 10:49 AM

Tags: Linux, Linux desktop OS, Open source

Adobe dipping toes into desktop Linux waters

News Job postings reveal company's increasing Linux involvement, even if Photoshop won't run on open source anytime soon.

Thursday, November 04 2004 11:03 AM

Tags: Linux, Business applications, Open source

Linux partnership addresses forking

News Deal between Ubuntu and Linspire to integrate each other's technology is a step toward reducing Linux fragmentation, an analyst says.

Wednesday, February 28 2007 04:01 PM

Tags: Linux desktop OS, Open source

Device support 'key' to desktop Linux

News Hardware makers should do more to make devices compatible with the open-source OS, experts tell LinuxWorld attendees.

Thursday, April 06 2006 10:20 AM

Tags: Linux, Open source

Linux newbies get a helping hand

News A popular online quiz is helping companies and home users to choose among desktop Linux products.

Friday, January 06 2006 11:11 AM

Tags: Open source

Industry group to polish desktop Linux

News Red Hat, IBM and an open-source consortium are each beginning serious work to advance Linux for use on desktop computers.

Wednesday, November 12 2003 01:38 PM

Novell: Vista will drive users to Linux

News Jack Messman claims that the cost of moving to Windows Vista will prompt users to consider moving to desktop Linux.

Tuesday, September 13 2005 12:03 PM

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux