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I've mentioned many times before the questionable nature of downloading video game ROMs in order to emulate them on your computer.

Some of the most visited sites on the Internet began delivering malware laden ads this weekend. The sites affected included The New York Times, the BBC, MSN, and AOL. Those who visited a site delivering the ads are not at risk unless they clicked on an infected ad. After clicking, users are taken to another website which attempts to infect them with either Cryptowall ransomware or a trojan that gives the attackers control of the infected computer. The good news for FOSS Force readers is that the malware seems to only works against Windows, so GNU/Linux users are considered safe.

Free Software Foundation Latin America (FSFLA) announced the release and availability for download of their Linux-libre 4.5 kernel, for those who want 100% freedom.

The growing trend of closed content silos—publishing platforms that require a login in order to view the content—is a step away from a more open web. As this trend continues, owners of closed silos will have even more control over published content and traffic that content drives. This is why content producers should also consider ways to publish content openly, and for their users to have the option to access content through their web browsers rather than being driven into closed ecosystems.  read more

Selecting the best Linux distro is a matter of personal choice, based on your daily work flow. Two Linux experts list their personal picks for best distro and discuss each distros merits and challenges.

Open source software companies thrive when they avoid repeating the mistakes made in the past, such as lacking an innovative open source business model.

Opinion: It can stop forcing companies to pay for its bogus Android patents. Right. Like that's ever going to happen.

If you're one of those people upgrading to the Raspberry Pi 3, you might wonder what to do with your old, lesser Pi. Aside from turning it into an array of blinking LEDs to entertain your cat, you might consider configuring it as a microcontroller. read more

Think of it as a productivity kit Deep dive Jide’s Remix OS is Android for a desktop or tablet OS: with multitasking, overlapping windows and the shortcut conveniences you need for productivity-style work.…

When last we left, I had summarized an interview conducted by The Pi Podcast with Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton concerning the release of the Raspberry Pi 3. Since then, I was lucky enough to purchase one of the devices and spent the last several days getting to use it for the first time to see how well it lives up to the hype.

It's fun to code and if you do it well then you can be a good developer. Nowadays people are turning toward programming and they are successfully building great applications. In this post I am going to give Linux users a list of 8 Best IDEs(Integrated Development Environment) or text editors that help developers in programming great applications in Linux quickly and easily.

Futarque’s “Rho Board” 4K media player SBC is up on Kickstarter, starting at $35 with a quad-core, Cortex-A7, a Pi 2 connector, and optional DVB-T2/C tuner. Danish digital video specialist Futarque needs another $5,000 or so to reach its Kickstarter goal for the Rho Board, with eight days left to go. The board is primarily […]

Qualcomm's broken drivers are tip of the iceberg If you've got a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip in your Android phone and tablet, make sure you grab its latest security updates – if you can.…

AT&T is doubling down on open-source and Linux to build its' next generation network.

The Web is the platform for game development and we’ll be showing it in action at this year’s Game Developer Conference in San Francisco. Powerful new capabilities continue to emerge and gain mindshare with developers and gamers alike.

Dell's newest Ubuntu Linux-based Project Sputnik laptops, which run Canonical's open source OS, highlight the company's continued commitment to the open source channel

Initial release to work on at least four websites. Success? Mozilla is planning an initial release of its new Servo-based new web browser in June, according to a post on the developer mailing list by research engineer Paul Rouget.

Also in today's open source roundup: Android N lays the groundwork for proper windowing, and how to roll back to Android Marshmallow from Android N.

A few moments ago, KDE released the third stability update for its KDE Applications 15.12 software suite, designed for the KDE Plasma 5.5.5 desktop environment.

As Docker container use continues to grow, there is a need for a distributed database technology that is built for the container era, which is precisely what Crate Technology is now aiming to deliver.