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I’m thinking I won’t plan to drop $1,500 for Google Glass, the sleek augmented reality glasses that will officially go on sale around the end of 2013. By the time you read this, it will be about six months since Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s appearance on TED Talks to tell about a new device called Google Glass. What better time to reflect?

"maddog" and Linaro are collaborating on a contest to improve the performance of certain GNU/Linux source code modules.

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.

A few years ago, the great epic battle of the IT industry was all about operating systems. MS-DOS versus OS/ 2, Windows verses Mac. Novell NetWare rode the wave of the network operating system for a while, until Microsoft punched back with Windows NT. The first couple of years I was in my editor’s chair, it seemed like every month we were writing about some hyperbolic new FUD from Microsoft as it sought to bring down Linux.

"maddog" explains why a knowledge of assembler, or other machine language, can be very useful.