pc magazine specialize in the sales of pre configured linux laptops for companies and individuals that want stable easy to use laptops . 1 emperorlinux was founded in 1999 by lincoln durey 2 an ee ph.d. from tulane university . the company s first product was the blackperl linux laptop based on a sony vaio 505tr with a highly modified linux kernel . since 1999 the company has added a range of ibm thinkpads dell latitudes and sharp laptops to its lineup . 3 4 these laptops are available with most major linux distributions including fedora rhel debian ubuntu and suse . significant improvements to stock linux distributions come from the empkernel and a carefully configured etc directory . supported features include apm and acpi suspend and hibernate support cpu throttling lcd backlight brightness control wireless and generally full support of the hardware under linux . 5 6 the company is privately held and based in atlanta georgia us . 7 references edit lynch jim 2003 01 23 . linux world the state of the linux desktop part ii . pc magazine . retrieved 2014 08 14 . marti don 2007 02 28 . dell lenovo sell windows free laptops . network world . retrieved 2014 08 14 via techhive.com . emperorlinux 2009 . emperorlinux . retrieved 2009 05 27 . emperorlinux 2009 . why . retrieved 2009 05 27 . emperorlinux 2009 . distros . retrieved 2009 05 27 . emperorlinux 2009 . kernel . retrieved 2009 05 27 . new products . linux journal . 2003 10 01 . retrieved 2014 08 14 . external links edit official website v t e linux linux kernel history kernel linus s law linux libre linux startup process linux kernel oops tux more controversies criticism of linux criticism of desktop linux gnu linux naming controversy tanenbaum torvalds debate sco and linux distributions general comparison distributions list netbook specific comparison distributions that run from ram lightweight proprietary software for linux package manager package format list of software package managers organizations linux foundation linux mark institute linux user group lug linux documentation project linuxchix linux counter adoption desktop embedded gaming linux range of use list of linux adopters media free software magazine linux.com linux format open source for you linux gazette linux journal linux magazine linuxuser ubuntu user linux outlaws linux voice lugradio lwn.net phoronix revolution os the code people alan cox allison randal andrew morton benjamin mako hill bradley kuhn bruce perens daniel robbins david s. miller greg kroah hartman ian murdock jon maddog hall jono bacon karen sandler linus torvalds eric s. raymond mark shuttleworth pamela jones patrick volkerding richard stallman theodore ts o william john sullivan linux linux kernel features portal linux wikiproject linux this technology article about a corporation or company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title emperorlinux & oldid 743263958 categories linux companiesprivately held companies based in georgia u.s. state companies based in atlantacomputer companies established in 1999technological company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 8 october 2016 at 21 38 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view