Google Glass's Android code now available
Ready to start programming for Google Glass? The tools are out there. While only a handful of Google Glasses are out, Google quietly released its Android-based core kernel code.
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Ubuntu Touch, the version of the Linux operating system for smartphones and tablets, is now available.
Open source software moves into all businesses
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2014: The year of the Linux car?
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Parallella: The $99 Linux supercomputer
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Xen becomes a Linux Foundation project
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Ubuntu 13.04 goes beta
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