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Linux kernel luminaries talk enterprise, embedded and why they're coming together

Developing the Linux kernel, according to some of the community's leading lights, is a difficult, complicated process but it's also one that's moving forward at some speed.

The final keynote at this year's LinuxCon North America event featured a panel discussion with Linux creator Linus Torvalds, stable branch maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman, and fellow maintainers Sarah Sharp and Tejun Heo.

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One of the central issues, the panel agreed, in present-day kernel development is created by the proliferation of Linux-based mobile devices, making the embedded development branch far more important than it had been.

"Embedded today is what enterprise was years ago," said Kroah-Hartman.

Torvalds concurred, citing his own recent workload. "If you look at just the last merge window, most of the actual code was on the embedded side," he said. "That's maybe because the embedded side has all these wild and wacky devices, and most of the kernel code these days is device drivers."

However, while kernel development may still be somewhat divided in this respect, the overlap is becoming more pronounced, according to Kroah-Hartman.

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"All the changes that you make have to work on all the things," he said. "So the enterprise guys didn't care about power management ... but it turned out that other people got power management into the kernel and all the enterprise people said wow, this just saved us a couple million dollars in our data center, thank you!'"

The kernel is still likely to be central to future embedded and mobile development, as well, according to Torvalds.

"The reason Linux runs really well on cell phones is that cell phones grew up," he said. "They're already thousands of times more powerful than the original machine that Linux came to be on."

The pace of change, however, may be starting to slow, as Moore's Law begins to run out of steam. Sharp referenced that in a comment about one of the latest and greatest pieces of modern gadgetry.

"If you look at something like Google Glass, the hardware's really not that advanced," she said. "But what you do with it is very interesting."

The panel lacked the acrimony some predicted after a contentious public spat between Torvalds and Sharp over the former's aggressive and frequently profane tirades this summer. Sharp did reference a need for inclusivity and tolerance in the kernel community, though the subject of general civility wasn't discussed at length.

"I'd like to make sure that our community is inclusive to all people that want to contribute," she said. "Getting more diversity is something I would like to see."

One aspect of kernel development that could aid in bringing in new blood, according to Torvalds, is the diverse nature of the work itself

"There are so many things you can do," he said. "The kernel, in many respects, has more opportunities for new people to come in than any other open-source project."

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Google Glass for bespectacled coming in a 'few months'

A version of Google Glass for people who already wear glasses will arrive in a few months, the head of the Google project said Monday.

"In the next few months we will release a version that will integrate into glasses. So if you are wearing glasses, you'd be able to use this," said Babak Parviz, founder and head of the Google Glass project at Google, during a speech at the Hot Chips conference in Stanford, California, on Tuesday.

If the Google Glass platform is successful, "you'll see different optics," Parviz said.

But will there be Google Glass contact lenses? That is possible, but perhaps in the distant future, Parviz said. "In principle that's a doable thing, someday actually in the future contact lenses may arrive. It's not immediate."

As a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, Parviz worked on putting displays in contact lenses.

"It was fun, we went all the way to 1-pixel on a contact lens that worked wirelessly, but even that was quite difficult," Parviz said.

In his speech, Parviz talked about the promise of Google Glass as a possible successor to smartphones for communications and information. It provides immediate and hands-free access to information, and can overlay the data on what may seem like a large screen.

"The cell phones screens... are limited for the most part to what the cell phone is. It would be very difficult to get a cinema-size display if you don't have a form factor like this," Parviz said.

Google ships its own smartphones and provides the OS for hundreds of millions of Android phones, but Glass has its own advantages. Smartphones, tablets and Google Glass will be able to co-exist, but ultimately the cutting-edge technology will take over, Parviz said. Google Glass could take over from smartphones the way mobile devices took over from computers and telephones as communications tools.

"It's not to say the smartphones aren't good, but there are certain things definitely unique to this platform that smartphones will not be able to do," Parviz said.

There are privacy concerns as well, and Parviz said it will take some time for society to figure out Google Glass. He likened the Google Glass to the first time the camera came out in the late 1800s, which caused an uproar because people were scared that someone would violate their privacy by randomly taking their picture on a street. Now cameras are part of our daily lives, Parviz said.

Google is trying to improve the hardware.

The company wants Google Glass to last all day on a single charge, while delivering the performance to handle the vast amount of information it collects. It also needs to interact better with the human body and environment through optics and photonics. Another challenge is video processing, as the device may capture a lot of video, and also be used for augmented reality.

"What we have today is a good solid first step, but not enough especially for video processing. Because the more this platform is successful, we're going to be collecting more video," Parviz said.

Another goal is to keep the device stylish, while reducing the size of components and keeping power consumption down.

"We're very excited about this platform," Parviz said. "We've made some really solid progress in the right direction and hopefully we can accelerate that."

Agam Shah covers PCs, tablets, servers, chips and semiconductors for IDG News Service. Follow Agam on Twitter at @agamsh. Agam's e-mail address is agam_shah@idg.com

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Give thanks: Sony announces Playstation 4 is coming to North America on November 15

We've known that Sony was launching the Playstation 4 this holiday season, but now know exactly when it’s coming: November 15 in North America and November 29 in Europe. The company announced the Playstation 4 release dates and a few interesting bits of Playstation game news during its Gamescom press conference today.

After showing us a quick glimpse of the PS4 user interface, Sony started its conference proper with new trailers for Gran Turismo 6, backed by a terrible opera soundtrack. While Gran Turismo is traditionally one of the titles that shows off Sony’s new console hardware, GT6 is slated only for PS3 when it releases this December.

Sony also showed off some new upcoming games for the current generation. On the PS3 side, Little Big Planet Hub is a free-to-play entry to the popular user-generated content franchise, presumably coming later this year.

Murasaki Baby is one of many visually-interesting indie games coming to Playstation Vita.

They also dedicated a hefty amount of time to the Vita handheld. Like, a lot of time. Perhaps the biggest announcement was a Vita price cut, down to $200. Sony also revealed that Borderlands 2 is heading to the Vita. We’ll have to wait and see how the console experience scales to the handheld hardware, but if successful it’s a testament to the power of the Vita.

There were also two previously unseen games for the Vita. The first, Murasaki Baby, looks like Tim Burton made a platformer: you play as a girl with a heart balloon, who has a mouth in her forehead. The other, BigFest, is some sort of game/marketing tool hybrid. Your goal in the game is to set up and manage a successful music festival. The twist—every band represented in the game is a real-world, unsigned band. Promoting games in the band will give them a better shot at making it in the real world as well.

To reinforce the “Sony cares about independent developers” narrative, we got a whole slew of news about our favorite small developers. Pretty much every eagerly-anticipated indie game is making its console debut on the PS4: Hotline Miami 2, Volume, Rogue Legacy, and N++ are all on the way.

The Chinese Room, developers of Dear Esther and the upcoming Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs also teased us with a short trailer for Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, with the tagline “This story begins with the end of the world.”

Everybody's Gone To The Rapture is another striking Playstation 4 game that seems to have nothing to do with gun violence, modern military power fantasies or square-jawed and sullen male protagonists.

And Sony just kept announcing new games: a new adventure-esque game from Tequila Works titled Rime, a top-down shooter with space marines called Helldivers, a new Housemarque project called Resogun that looks somewhat like a 3D version of the arcade game Defender, and a remake/reboot of the classic Psygnosis title Shadow of the Beast.

In terms of big-budget games, Sony's Gamescom conference revealed…basically nothing. We saw new trailers for Infamous: Second Son and the new Killzone title, but nothing spectacular. They also announced the combat massively multiplayer game War Thunder is coming to the PS4.

Ubisoft showed off the PS4 and Vita’s cross-play abilities with a demo of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. In the midst of the presentation, the game was swapped from playing on the PS4’s screen to an (ostensibly) live demonstration on the Vita. Sony claims “nearly every” game developed for the system is playable on both the PS4 and Vita, though it gave no further info on what the exceptions are.

You should be able to play Assassin's Creed IV and many other Playstation 4 games on the handheld Playstation Vita console.

Watch Dogs, typically the star of the last few games conferences, underwhelmed at Gamescom with a lackluster trailer and the announcement that they’re making a movie from the franchise. Something about “counting your eggs.”

And in the growing realm of games streaming, Sony announced the PS4 will support Twitch compatibility in addition to the previously-announced Ustream partnership.

But of course, the news we all cared about came last: the PS4 will launch for $400 (or the local currency equivalent) this November in 32 markets, and has already sold a million preorder units worldwide.

North American users who preordered will receive their consoles on November 15, while Europeans will have to wait an extra two weeks until November 29.

If you haven’t already preordered, however, you’re probably out of luck. Amazon ran out of preorder units last week. I’m sure some friendly people on eBay will help you though—to the tune of a 400 percent markup.

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The 10 most anticipated PC games coming this holiday season

2013 has already delivered an onslaught of amazing games. From Bioshock Infinite to Company of Heroes 2 to Antichamber, the hits have kept us glued to our keyboards. Okay, we don’t want to talk about SimCity, but sometimes the tragedies are what make PC gaming so interesting.

And there are many more titles to come. The year may be more than half over, but some of 2013's best months for PC gaming are still ahead. So take a look at the following list, and remember: Patience is a virtue.

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Scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass NBT displays coming for touchscreen laptops

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Displays displays, laptops Scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass NBT displays coming for touchscreen laptops

Mashing mobile technology together with traditional PC designs has a hit-and-miss track record—cough, cough—but Monday, Corning announced that one of the more practical smartphone innovations out there is coming to touchscreen PCs, in the form of Gorilla Glass NBT.

Gorilla Glass has become a mainstay on top-shelf smartphone releases thanks to its enhanced scratch resistance—a killer property when you’re poking and prodding your device all day long. While manufacturers have dabbled with putting Gorilla Glass coatings on laptops in the past—witness the Gorilla Glass-drenched HP Envy Spectre line, or numerous high-end Dell offerings—Corning hasn’t made a concerted effort to crack the laptop arena until now.

With touchscreens regularly appearing on PCs these days, Corning is trying to transfer its mobile success to the x86 crowd.

Corning says Gorilla Glass NBT offers eight- to ten-times more scratch resistance than the soda lime glass traditionally used on laptops. And if your screen does get scraped, the company claims that Gorilla Glass NBT boasts both reduced scratch visibility and “better retained strength once a scratch occurs to help protect notebook displays from breakage.”

The new displays are stronger than traditional screens, too. In the amusing video above, Corning shill “Warren” demonstrates how the Gorilla Glass NBT screen is capable of withstanding having a notebook’s lid closed on a pen—an event that cracks a standard soda lime display.

While you shouldn’t expect the arrival of Gorilla Glass NBT to give lagging laptop sales a shot in the arm, adding Corning’s steadfast screens to touchscreen notebooks should only make the mobile computing experience less frustrating—assuming the new display tech is as impervious as its mobile-focused counterpart.

My touchscreen laptops already display scads of small feather scratches, and the cost of replacing a cracked laptop screen can easily go up to several hundred dollars.

For “one to two percent of a notebook’s retail price,” as Corning announced the cost, I’d be surprised if Gorilla Glass NBT didn’t become a staple on premium notebooks, as Gorilla Glass has on smartphones.

In fact, Dell is on board and plans to integrate Gorilla Glass NBT into the touchscreen laptops being released this fall, while Corning says it expects several laptops from several manufacturers to include NBT later this year.

Now, if only Gorilla Glass could do something about greasy fingerprints smearing up the screen…

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