Shuttle puts a dual-core Intel Atom processor into one of its smallest chassis to create the Shuttle X27D. Our Shuttle X27D sample was supplied with openSUSE 11, a mature and reasonably user-friendly Linux operating system.

Chrome OS may give Eric Schmidt reason to leave Apple’s board, but he declined to acknowledge Microsoft as a competitor

The company providing technology to the US intelligence community has invested in an open-source firm to provide enterprise-search technology to the CIA and other intelligence agencies.

If you’ve gone to USPS.com to track and confirm delivery of a letter or package, you’ve used the U.S. Postal Service’s Product Tracking System (PTS) and probably not known it. And you might not have noticed either when USPS moved the system to open source.

Many writers, including WorksWithU's Joe Panttieri, have suggested that Google's recently announced Chrome OS is bad news for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions struggling to establish a foothold on the desktop, especially in the netbook market.  While only time will tell how this development will really pan out, I'm not so convinced it will be to Canonical's disadvantage.  Here's why.

Dependence on a desktop hegemony that is beset with interoperability issues looks increasingly dated. The pressure for open standards and a more heterogeneous mix of technologies in the enterprise is coming not only from governments and users, the free software community or the European Commission, but also from the technologies themselves.

Teachers and school administrators are having to get creative about finding quality educational software they can afford. Jack Wallen introduces 10 topnotch open source solutions to help manage and administer educational programs and teach children of all ages.

I'm not pressing the panic button. I think millions of people remain committed to Ubuntu Linux. But recent events - involving Google Chrome OS, Google Android and Moblin - make me wonder if Ubuntu faces far more competition than Canonical anticipated.