I recently received a review unit from System76 called Sable Touch, and it was $1,300.00 (USD) worth of touch screen goodness. Before I get into the actual state of "touch" on Linux, I want to ...

In today's open source roundup: DistroWatch looks at how touch interfaces perform in various Linux desktop environments. Plus: Linus shares his thoughts about computing security. And a review of the ...

Also tried commenting out the tablet section as well. Neither impacted the touchscreen - it still worked. Next, I tried adding Option "Ignore" "on" to the last line of the touch screen entry, before ...

Linux users wanting a quickly-configurable Linux server image that could handle a number of enterprise computing tasks, might want to get the latest version of Zero Touch Linux in the test lab. The ...

Most of the multi-touch gestures available to iPhone and Apple laptop owners don't require anything special, hardware-wise—except a patent license from Apple. Linux users, however, can get some of ...

One of Linux’s biggest players is heading to mobile. The new Ubuntu has a gesture heavy interface and will be entering the market amid a number of mature operating systems. We have reservations about ...

Planet Computers turned heads when it arrived on the scene almost exactly five years ago. The London-based hardware startup was banking on a bit of nostalgia for the days of tactile mobile keyboards, ...

The JingPad A1 is a tablet with premium specs and software that’s both unusual, and unfinished. Launched last year by a Chinese startup called Jingling, the JingPad A1 was designed to run a ...

The iPod may have won the popularity war for PMPs in many markets, but that hasn't stopped a healthy ecosystem of unknown-brand media players that are usually cheap and, in varying degrees, cheerful.

The early and surprisingly nice version bodes well for Canonical's Linux smartphone -- but you may not want to install it yourself Developers got their first hands-on peek yesterday of Canonical’s ...

DigitalPersona releases its OneTouch® for Linux SDK that enables developers to create fingerprint-enabled applications for the Linux operating system. Designed for 2.6 kernel versions of the Novell ...