System76 sells a line of notebook and desktop computers with Ubuntu Linux software. The company’s latest Ubuntu notebook features a 14 inch display and an Intel Core i3 Broadwell processor. The new ...

Asus may have a number of Windows 8 portable computers set to launch in the coming weeks. But the company isn’t putting all its eggs in one basket. The Asus X201e is an inexpensive portable laptop ...

In a world where you expect to walk into a store and see dozens of laptops with the Windows 10 Start button in the lower left-hand corner of the screen, it’s rather surprising every time a PC maker ...

A couple of weeks ago, we talked about Dell's latest Ubuntu notebook, the XPS 13 "Developer Edition", also dubbed "Sputnik 3". This is the kind of notebook that most Linux fans would love to have; it ...

Windows 10 machines and MacBook Pros aren’t the only ones getting new members of the family. Linux also has its adherents, and every now and then a manufacturer makes a machine aimed squarely at that ...

I recently picked up an Acer V5-131 at a good price here in Switzerland. In my previous two posts about it I have described configuring and upgrading Windows 8, and installing openSuSE, Fedora and ...

In my previous post I installed openSUSE Tumbleweed, Manjaro and Debian on my shiny new ASUS X540S notebook. Now I am going to continue the testing by installing Fedora 25 Workstation (Gnome 3), Linux ...

Acer did not preinstall the Ubuntu Linux distribution on a batch of Aspire notebooks for sale in Singapore, but instead is installing a different version of the open source operating system, local ...

Dell is continuing to make progress on the Linux front and is warming to the hearts of Linux users. Back in December 2007, the computer manufacturer announced the addition of Ubuntu 7.10 (a.k.a Gutsy ...

Erica Ogg is a CNET News reporter who covers Apple, HP, Dell, and other PC makers, as well as the consumer electronics industry. She's also one of the hosts of CNET News' Daily Podcast. In her ...

Ubuntu flavors are officially supported Ubuntu-based distributions that take the Ubuntu core, but replace the desktop ...