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In today's open source roundup: Mozilla announces the end of the Firefox OS smartphone, and Linux redditors share their thoughts about it. Plus: Ars Technica reviews Google's Pixel C tablet. And Adobe releases a huge security update for Linux Flash player.

Getting a Linux server hacked and made part of a botnet is easier than some people may think. As two unrelated blog posts published in the past week demonstrate, running a vulnerable piece of software is often all that's required.

The results of our latest poll have been tallied and FOSS Force readers evidently think that Mozilla should keep Thunderbird instead of helping the project find a new home. Mozilla executive chairperson, Mitchell Baker, announced on November 30 that the foundation intended to eventually separate itself from the popular desktop email client it first released in 2004.

Adlink’s “Matrix MXE-1400” is a compact, rugged industrial PC built around a quad-core Atom, with three GbE ports, SATA and CFast, and optional wireless. The Matrix MXE-1400 is the first of a new series of industrial computers that continues Adlink Matrix E series features such as fanless operation, cable-free construction, and ruggedization. The MXE-1400 is […]

A few of weeks ago I got a email from a friend who was attending an education technology conference. In the note he referenced PyGaze, an open source project I might be interested in. read more

Adobe abandoned active development for the Flash Player on Linux a while back and is now only releasing security upgrades. The company just released a massive security update, and it looks like the Linux platform is covered as well.

Yesterday I wrote the article on how to select and install the right theme for your blog or website. No doubt it’s very important to have a good-looking, responsive and best-fit theme for your blog/website. So if you’ve not yet read that article then you can read here. But today I’ll show you how you can make your website more useful for your readers by installing more plugins to your WordPress site. In this article you will know how to install WordPress plugins.

Portwell’s industrial-focused “WADE-8017” Mini-ITX board taps Intel’s 6th Gen “Skylake” Core CPUs, and offers SATA, M.2, PCIe, and miniPCIe expansion. Like the Advantech AIMB-275 and Arbor ITX-i89H0, Portwell’s WADE-8017 SBC targets industrial applications rather than home use, and weds the 170 x 170mm Mini-ITX form-factor with Intel’s 14nm fabricated 6th Gen Core (Skylake) processors. The […]

Operating system shifting to IoT uses Mozilla announced at the Mozlando developer conference in Florida that it has officially abandoned attempts to get a foothold in the smartphone market with its Firefox OS system.…

Garry Newman, creator of Garry’s Mod and Rust, has stated he’s leaning towards not supporting Linux in the future. Newman has been critical of Linux on Twitter saying, “Linux is a second class citizen, we don’t run it internally because only 17 people use it.”

SAINT PAUL, Minn (December 8, 2015) CodeWeavers, Inc., developer of CrossOver the easiest, fastest way to run Windows software on Mac and Linux announced today the release of CrossOver 15. With CrossOver 15, you can run thousands of Windows software titles, without the need for a Windows OS license.

When the Python interpreter executes a program which imports a module, it examines all directory paths listed in sys.path until it finds the module. By default, sys.path is constructed as a concatenation of (1) the current working directory, (2) content of PYTHONPATH environment variable, and (3) a set of default paths supplied by the installed Python interpreter.

Chapeau 23 “Armstrong,” a Linux distribution based on the Fedora 23 Workstation has been released and is now available for download.

CiviCRM is a web-based, open source, customer relationship management software that is specifically designed for the needs of non-profit, non-governmental, and advocacy groups. It is designed to manage information about an organization’s donors, members, event registrants, subscribers, grant application seekers and funders, and case contacts.

The developers of the elementary GNU/Linux operating system, an Ubuntu derivative loved by the community for its gorgeous look and feel, have announced the migration of the distro's icons to GitHub.

Today we are launching Focus by Firefox, a free content blocker for Safari users on iOS 9. The app allows users to control their data flow by blocking categories of trackers such as those used for ads, analytics and social media and allows increased performance on mobile devices by blocking Web fonts.

Samsung has always been at the forefront of technology, making advances which are well out of reach of most companies. Their latest is 128GB DDR4 Ram.

But there is something to Apple's ill-thought out claim.

Habari is a free and open source publishing platform and application framework with a modular, object-oriented Core. In this guide we will install Habari on a CentOS 7 VPS with Apache, MariaDB and PHP. Its installation is pretty easy and straightforward.

Ubuntu developers are planning to implement a default VPN solution into Ubuntu Touch that will be later made available in the regular Ubuntu desktop.