Ubuntu Linux developers plan to extend its open source software development to handheld Internet-enabled devices. Developers meeting at the Ubuntu Developer Summit, which runs through the end of this ...

After more than a decade of struggling for consumer acceptance on desktop and notebook PCs, Linux appears to have found a solid niche for itself on ultrasmall notebook PCs such as Intel Netbooks and ...

Over the past five years, the diffusion and adaptation of Linux into mobile operating systems (OSes) has grown to 60 million units per year, with various mobile phone vendors, such as Motorola, NEC, ...

The company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system may have given up on Ubuntu for phones and tablets. But as expected, third-party developers are picking up where Canonical left off.

With Pepper Computer and Ubuntu both pushing their respective embedded OS efforts towards Intel’s Mobile Internet Device platform, it appears the market for ultra mobile PCs is taking a sharp turn ...

Ubuntu Linux today released the first developer’s version of its new Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device (MID) Edition 8.04 operating system, which is aimed at device manufacturers that build Internet-ready ...

As expected, Canonical says a release of its Ubuntu Linux operating system called Ubuntu Netbook Remix is in the works for mobile Internet devices and mini-notebooks. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996 ...

The version of Ubuntu Linux due to arrive in October 2008, Intrepid Ibex, will be designed to work well on everything from laptops to workstations. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

BQ and Canonical announced Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition, the second Ubuntu-powered mobile to come from the vendor. Alberto Mendez, CEO of BQ, said: “We have devised the BQ-Canonical collaboration as a ...

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth sees Linux playing a big role in the cloud and in mobile computing – especially his own server and client software. In a brief interview with ZDNet after his OSBC ...