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The case against patents can be summarized briefly: there is no empirical evidence that they serve to increase innovation and productivity, unless the latter is identified with the number of patents awarded – which, as evidence shows, has no correlation with measured productivity.

This is an article about Ansible. Ansible is a radically simple model-driven configuration management, deployment, and command execution framework. I'll give an overview on how I use it, give an install and setup tutorial, give example commands and have example playbooks.

How much difference can a single instruction make? On the Raspberry Pi, it can make a difference of 14%, demonstrable without any expensive digital testing equipment.

(Not strictly Linux/FOSS, but shows testing with a DIY philosophy.)

Wanna build your own supercomputer? All you need is some Legos and a few dozen Raspberry Pis. That’s Raspberry Pis — no “e.” If you can build a supercomputer with raspberry pies, do let us know. We mean those super-small Linux PCs cooked up by some brainy researchers in Britain. Yes, you’ll need Legos too — and maybe some help from the closest 6-year-old.

Motorola Mobility has introduced a desktop all-in-one computer running the Android operating system. The Cloud Broadband is being launched in China in partnership with WASU Digital Group. The device is being touted to Chinese consumers as a combination of an HD digital TV with live and on-demand capability, and a touchscreen tablet/PC running Android.

Warning from Microsoft to the entire Internet: make sure that your digital certificates are at least 1024 bits. As of Oct. 9, 2012, longer key lengths are mandatory for all digital encryption certificates that touch Windows systems.

Motorola has rolled out an Android-powered desktop in China - complete with an 18.5-inch LED touchscreen (1366x768 @ 60Hz, 16:9), keyboard and mouse.??

At the LinuxCon USA event, Linus Torvalds told the audience that there are enough Linux kernel developers out there already. As it turns out, that might not necessarily be the case.

A regional court in Munich has ruled that Google-owned Motorola Mobility infringed an Apple patent related to touchscreen technology. The court placed a preliminary injunction on devices that use the patent-infringing tech, including the Motorola Milestone XT720, the Motorola Defy, the Motorola Atrix and the Motorola Xoom.

The Samba developers are moving forward with their plans to deliver the next version of the Windows file, print and directory server and have announced that the first release candidate for Samba 4 is now ready.Version 4 of the free Windows services server has been in development for some time, and now includes a directory service that is compatible with Microsoft's Active Directory. The developers point out that this version continues to be unsuitable for production use, but that it can now be tested by interested Samba users.

This week we look at Star Trek tech that's available today, why Apple and Microsoft mobile developers are upset and why development teams don't communicate better.

In the spirit of full-disclosure, let me first tell you that I love VirtualBox. I use it every day and it is a core component of my workflow and my digital life. The new VirtualBox 4.2 release out today is now going to make my life, a bit easier.

David Tavares, the developer of Pear Linux, has announced yesterday, September 13th, on Twitter, that the first Alpha versionn of the upcoming Pear Linux 6 operating system is now available for download and testing.

Donnie Berkholz of RedMonk has argued that the “infrastructure stack” needs an Affero LGPL to prevent the dreaded fragmentation. Do we? I’m not convinced that it’s necessary, desirable, or likely to catch on at all.

Euro Truck Simulator 2 is developed by SCS Software. The game is powered by Prism3D, a multiplatform game engine written in C++. It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit target architectures on Windows, Mac and Linux out of the box.

Even if GNOME 3.6 has not yet been released, the GNOME developers published some of the features that will be implemented in the next major release of the desktop environment, GNOME 3.8.

I’m going to put my conclusion to this review right up front – OpenSuse 12.2 is a solid desktop and server operating system built on the incremental improvements that have been made across the linux ecosystem in the last 10 months. Whilst that sounds rather like damning with faint praise, in the current operating system ecosystem, there will be many who will find such an unspectacular and solid release, reason for wild celebration. OpenSuse is not trying to shoe-horn a tablet UI onto a desktop machine, ala OSX 10.8, Windows 8, and Ubuntu. OpenSuse is putting out a solid OS that provides its users with a system that they understand and meets their needs, is stable and performant, which in this day and age, is rather refreshing.

The latest release of openSUSE, 12.2, which became available last week, does not have support for secure boot, Vojtech Pavlik, director of SUSE Labs and head of kernel development at SUSE, has told iTWire.

I've been using Ubuntu 12.04 on my MSI netbook for about a week now. The netbook is a 10" model with a 1.66 Gig dual core Intel Atom N280 CPU, 1 Gig of RAM and Intel Mobile 945GSE Integrated Graphics, 3 USB ports, VGA out, and Microphone and Headphone sockets, and an SD card slot.

The second Alpha images of the upcoming Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10 distribution was announced yesterday, September 13th, by Jeremy Bicha and the Ubuntu Gnome Community.