We toss together our own PCB designs, throwing in a microcontroller here or there. Anything more demanding than that, and we reach for a Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone (or an old Linksys router). Why d… ...

Popcorn Computer, by the way, is the same group that attempted to revive the C.H.I.P. single-board computer earlier this year… but only ended up raising $5,091 toward a goal of $250,000.

Although Android technically runs on top of Linux, generally most Android devices abstract away the underlying Linux-ness of these machines. In theory this is a good thing; we wouldn’t necess… ...

To ease the layout of industrial Linux computer PCBs, at Embedded World in Nuremberg Microchip announced a complete processor, memory and comms sub-system in a 40 x 38mm module. The module is single ...

The original PCB has been replaced with a new one featuring a 1 GHz Ingenic X1000E single-core MIPS processor with 64MB of RAM plus 32MB of NOR flash storage and 4GB of SLC NAND flash.

Not pictured: Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner on lightcycles. The $25 Raspberry Pi computer (which can run Quake III) is still on track for wide release next year. The ARM GNU/Linux box is ...

FXI is preparing to launch the Cotton Candy, a tiny computer that looks like a USB thumb drive. The device, which can run either Ubuntu or Android 4.0, has a dual-core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPU ...

For more information on the VoCore tiny Linux computer, which is available with a DIY dock for just $40, jump over to the Indiegogo website for full details. Source: Indiegogo Share ...

In an interview on Thursday, Zemlin elaborated on his free PC vision, enabled by the rise of netbooks running Linux. “What made the cell phone industry in the U.S. in particular take off in the ...

And given that Bodhi Linux can make an aging computer feel brand new, it's less likely that old desktop machine will wind up in a landfill somewhere. See also How to replace Windows with Linux ...