Excited for LinuxCon New Orleans, in GIFs

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Libby Clark

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September 10, 2013

LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America are next week in New Orleans.

Erica Brescia

And to get you pumped up for the event, we’ve collected some fun moments from LinuxCon 2012.

Whether you’re coming to hear the great prognosticator give his state of Linux address

Jim Zemlin

Goof off like Greg Kroah Hartman in a half pipe

GKH Skateboard

Find people to laugh at your kernel jokes

Guys Laughing

Join the penguin rookery

Endless People

See Linus Torvalds on stage (is this thing on?)

Linus Torvalds on stage at LinuxCon

Or rock out with Linus

Linus Singing

We hope your experience is Excellent.

Head Banging

And if you can’t make it, be sure to catch the live video stream of the LinuxCon and CloudOpen keynotes.

Red Hat Offers Storage Test Drives for Enterprise Customers

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Muktware

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September 10, 2013

Red Hat is offering free (as in beer) Storage Test Drives through Amazon Web Services (AWS) to give customers a hands-on experience.

Hackable Lego robot runs ARM Linux on TI Sitara SoC

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LinuxGizmos

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September 10, 2013

Lego began shipping its hackable, Linux-based Lego Mindstorms EV3 robot for $350. Texas Instruments revealed that the robot is powered by its 300MHz ARM9-based Sitara AM1808 system-on-chip and CC2560 Bluetooth chipset. As promised a month ago, Lego is now shipping its Lego Mindstorms EV3 robot kit for $350. In conjunction with the release of the […]

2D Performance Is Improving For Ubuntu 13.10 XMir

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Phoronix

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September 10, 2013

While the OpenGL gaming performance on XMir/Mir was recently made faster thanks to composite bypass support being committed, the feature doesn’t help out non-full-screen applications for rendering faster. To see where the current 2D Linux desktop performance is on Ubuntu 13.10 when using Intel graphics and enabling XMir and the Unity System Compositor, here are some new benchmarks…

New openSUSE Images for Raspberry Pi

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Muktware

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September 10, 2013

Good news for Raspberry Pi users, there are brand new images of openSUSE for this revolutionary device.

Will Flash Ever Be as Cheap as Disk?

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ZDNet

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September 10, 2013

No. Transistors will always cost more than tiny magnetic dots, despite Moore’s Law. Here’s why.

Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit

Linus Says No NSA Backdoor in Linux

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Linux Pro Magazine

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September 10, 2013

Brief dust-up in the kernel community leads to an illuminating look at random number generation.

Nested Mir Rendering Now Supported On Android

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Phoronix

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September 10, 2013

The latest feature added to Ubuntu’s Mir display server is nested rendering support when using Android…

Continental, IBM in Connected-Car Alliance

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CNET

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September 10, 2013

The automotive supplier’s technology moving toward “highly automated driving,” with IBM servers processing real-time vehicle data so cars can anticipate detailed driving conditions. [Read more]

The Role of Software Patents in the Patent Reform Debate

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OpenSource.com

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September 10, 2013

Momentum seems to be building in Congress to tackle patent reform. From an open source perspective, any reform that reduces the risk and expense of patent lawsuits is surely a good thing. But the reforms under current discussion so far have largely been focused on the problem of NPEs (non-practicing entities) and have not directly addressed the problem of software patents. Are the two issues best viewed as one? So argues Boston University Professor James Bessen in his recent piece, The patent troll crisis is really a software patent crisis.