Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

The Linux distribution aimed at phones and tablets, postmarketOS, is working on several under-the-hood changes and an experimental ‘immutable’ version. The operating system is also now available on ...

On Monday, the LiMo Foundation, an open source mobility consortium driving to break down the boundaries of mobile computing using a Linux-based operating system, added seven new devices to its roster, ...

Last December, PalmSource announced it had acquired mobile Linux vendor China MobileSoft and planned to use the company's technology to migrate its Palm OS to a Linux kernel. In the months following ...

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, ...

Plasma Mobile is a user interface for mobile Linux distributions that includes a mix of features borrowed from the KDE Plasma desktop environment and mixes in some mobile-specific components designed ...