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 ...

Many Linux users will be able to perform multi-touch gestures on their laptop touchpads, after Synaptics extended this functionality to the open-source operating system environment. On Monday, ...

Recently I asked readers for suggestions regarding Linux audio topics they'd like to read about in my articles. One response suggested a survey of the various Internet communications channels for ...

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 ...

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 KDE-powered Vivaldi tablet project has been killed, leaving Ubuntu Touch as our only hope for a Linux-first tablet. My daily computing experience is pretty “tablet-heavy.” My Nexus 7 is my ...

Thinking about picking up one of those newfangled multitouch displays for your netbook, but holding off because you’re worried that there won’t be support for multitouch gestures under Linux? It looks ...

A driver for the Surface 3 touchscreen controller is expected to be made available in the final release of the 4.8 Linux kernel, allowing users to remove Windows 10 and install a Linux-based platform ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. That lead paragraph was probably enough to hook many of you, so if ...