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The long-awaited JSR310 is scheduled to appear in next year's Java 8 release and relieving the headaches of any Java programmer who has wrestled with dates and times in Java

With a largely shared driver code-base across platforms, the binary graphics drivers offered by AMD and NVIDIA perform at roughly the same speed for OpenGL between Linux and Windows; that's traditionally been the case and what Phoronix benchmarks in prior years have shown for NVIDIA and AMD. However, the OpenGL performance difference between operating systems is beginning to widen due to compositing window managers and other factors now affecting the results to a greater extent. In this article are benchmarks of the proprietary NVIDIA graphics driver from Microsoft Windows 7 and then development snapshots of Ubuntu 12.10 with Unity and KDE desktops.

Wine 1.5.13 was released on Friday afternoon with a few prominent new features...

Translates Java code to Objective-C Google has released a tool aimed at making it easier to port software between the two major smartphone platforms, by converting Java code for Android into Objective-C code that can be compiled to run on Apple iOS devices.…

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.