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Portable Linux
White Papers In addition to Linux success itself, user's needs for using Linux system has been various and a portable Linux is one of the needs. A portable Linux means that user can use Linux system every time every where and Knoppix and Gentoo LiveCD are good...
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
Ultra-cheap Linux portable targets developing nations
News However, the Simputer will change all that by bringing portable computing and the information age to developing countries. The finished product will be slightly larger than a Palm handheld but will operate as a simple portable computer.
[January 11, 2002, 12:19]
Xandros expands mobile device push
News Xandros, which makes the Windows-like Linux distribution used in Asus's popular Eee PC sub-laptop, has signed a deal with information-management software maker Viyya Technologies to jointly target portable devices such as laptops and mobile...
[May 6, 2008, 17:10]
Open-source audio wins MP3 player support
News This "means Linux interoperability for a portable player that's supported by the manufacturer, not an after-market hack supported by some guy in Johannesburg with a dial-up connection and a copy of Emacs," Plant said in a letter posted on the Ogg...
[February 25, 2003, 9:59]
Linux everywhere: The Penguin goes mobile
News Now computer industry giants are joining the portable Linux parade. We're seeing a ton of development on Linux," said Lynn Comp, product marketing engineer at Intel's handheld computing division, which markets the company's Strong ARM microprocessors.
[June 29, 2000, 14:07]
Opinion: Mobile Linux for Bluetooth - spanner for Microsoft?
News This would make Linux an even more attractive proposition for the growing number of portable PC devices on the market. Andrew Till, Psion's technology strategist, is convinced that a mobile version of Linux will be successful, particularly as the...
[May 11, 1999, 8:33]
Motorola resorts to Intel chip
News The Linux-powered handset will be closely watched by those who foresee a bright future for the open-source operating system on portable devices. Motorola develops and manufactures its own line of processors for portable devices, such as handhelds...
[October 31, 2003, 10:45]
Linux vendors release security patches
News Xpdf is a stand-alone application for reading Portable Document Format documents and is also used by many Linux programs to process PDF files. The XPixMap (XPM) format enables colour images to be stored in an easily portable file.
[January 14, 2005, 7:50]
Access Linux Platform upgraded, downsized
News Access said the lightweight version of ALP is targeted not only at low-end smartphones and so-called "feature phones", but also "internet-enabled, beyond-PC devices, such as portable navigation devices, portable media players and set-top boxes".
[October 24, 2008, 11:55]
Wearable, long-lasting Linux
News Fuel cells can potentially provide an unlimited supply of portable power and may be the perfect solution to the currently limited life for batteries used for portable electronics," said Edward G Newman, president and chief executive of Xybernaut.
[February 18, 2000, 14:09]
Tadpole evolves towards AMD
News Tadpole's Opteron machine is likely to fill in product gaps between the company's Talin portable, which is based on Intel Pentium 4 processors and uses the Linux operating system, and its UltraSparc processor machines, such as the Sparcbook.
[March 30, 2004, 11:05]
Time to lap up Linux
Leader Laptops are far less tweakable than desktops; you can't change the hardware configuration very much, so Dell has confidence that the audio and video drivers it has certified for its portable hardware will remain good for the lifetime of the...
[May 2, 2007, 15:34]
IDF: Ultramobile Intel processor breaks cover, adopts Linux, gets alliance.
Blog Not quite sure what the practical implications of that are, but Linux does make a very good software platform for portable devices with a bit of welly - just the right mix of information appliance and flexibility.
[April 18, 2007, 4:53]
Transmeta chip could knock Intel off its perch
News The FT concludes that the Crusoe chip could significantly shake up the processor manufacturing industry and could even topple Intel as the number-one maker of chips for portable devices, because of Transmeta's innovative, low-power-consumption...
[January 14, 2000, 14:06]
Dell sees future in miniature notebooks
News That's because, when I'm after a laptop, I want it to be small and portable but I also want reasonable performance, so I'm seriously considering getting a Mac Airbook and running Linux on it," Oxer said.
[February 7, 2008, 16:47]
Mobiles to get PowerVR 3D this year
News The first portable products using Imagination Technologies' PowerVR MBX 3D graphics technology will ship this year, and will represent a "significant step ahead" from products such as Nintendo's GameBoy Advance and Nokia's N-Gage, Imagination said...
[January 8, 2004, 16:35]
Crusoe's ripple effect on Psion, ARM, others
News With the high-profile launch of Transmeta's new microprocessor Crusoe, aimed at portable devices, chipmakers such as Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and Cyrix aren't the only companies who could be affected.
[January 20, 2000, 17:10]
Viva las gadgets: CES comes to town
News Intel and Microsoft push portable video The chip giant is whipping up reference designs for PVPs, or portable video players, and the software powerhouse is concocting a related OS, called Media2Go MontaVista wants to put Linux on your TV
[January 9, 2003, 13:33]
IBM chases a PC's soul
News Researchers at IBM are testing software that would let you tote your home or office desktop around on an iPod or similar portable device, so that you could run it on any PC. The idea of booting from portable hard drives is not new, nor is the trend...
[August 15, 2005, 9:30]
Linux users warned over GNOME attack
News Another flaw in a popular code library for handling an open-source image format, known as Portable Network Graphics, put computers running Linux, Windows and Mac OS X at risk. Several flaws in common Linux code used to process graphics in the GNOME...
[December 9, 2004, 8:35]
