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VIA Technologies has announced this morning that they have partnered with Mozilla for providing support and development for Firefox OS on new devices.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in uscan, a tool to scan upstream sits for new releases of packages, which is part of the devscripts package. An attacker controlling a website from which uscan would attempt to download a source tarball could execute arbitrary code.

The developers of the Rygel open source UPnP media server software have announced a new development version, 0.21.2, which adds several new features and fixes many bugs.

It's nearly one month late but the LLVM 3.4 compiler infrastructure is now available with the updated Clang C/C++ compiler front-end, the usual LLVM sub-projects, and also some new compiler tools.

After almost one year of hard work, David King was proud to announced this past weekend that version 2.1.9 of his EasyTAG open source tag editor software that supports MP3, FLAC and Ogg Vorbis audio files, is now available for download with numerous new features and bugfixes.

Jan Juergens discovered a buffer overflow in the parser for SMS messages in Asterisk. An additional change was backported, which is fully described in a link provided in this article.

NPD released some Chromebook sales numbers recently and it started a debate about whether Chromebook sales were hurting Apple or Microsoft more --or even if it was accurate data. But regardless, it's not a zero sum game. I buy different devices for different jobs, and I'm sure I'm not alone.

Multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities in Libgdiplus may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

What does a swap device do? And do I actually need to have one on my Linux machine? This article explains the use of swap devices, and when they're necessary.

Digia is planning to introduce Enginio cloud data storage support into the Qt 5.3 tool-kit release.

HP and Lenovo are betting that Android PCs can convert both office and home Windows PC users to Android.

Many Phoronix readers likely recall the glory years of the open-source-friendly Linksys WRT54G router that for some is still a great device and there's still the thriving OpenWRT community. Good news out of CES today is that Linksys is letting the WRT54G live-on in the form of the 802.11ac-based WRT1900AC.

Today in Open Source: Windows Phone and Windows RT for free? Plus: A Linux powered crock-pot, and Calibre 1.18 released. The folks at Microsoft should give a listen to the Bruce Springsteen song "Glory Days," it sums up their situation quite well.

The Linux-based operating system is expanding from smartphones to more devices, as Panasonic embraces Firefox OS for a new generation of smart TVs.

Email service is one of the most often used services globally. Today almost everyone has at least one email account. Although clicking on the email send button and delivery of an email message appear seamless, a lot of events take place behind the scenes to make sure that the email reaches its final destination. This tutorial goes over how the delivery of an email message actually takes place in reality.

Previously, I provided several options for organisations wanting to update their current Windows XP environment to a free and open source (FOSS) environment rather than a more recent Microsoft platform when Microsoft officially abandons its venerable Windows XP in April 2014.  

Google announced an Open Automotive Alliance with Audi, GM, Honda, Hyundai, and Nvidia to ease integration with Android and standardize Android IVI systems. The Open Automotive Alliance (OAA) is “dedicated to a common platform that will drive innovation, and make technology in the car safer and more intuitive for everyone,” says the group. The OAA […]

LinuxSecurity.com: Nearly seven months after journalist and privacy activist Glenn Greenwald publicized Edward Snowden's first revelations of the vast scope of the NSA's digital surveillance, his life has changed absolutely.

Ubuntu 2014: One Linux codebase to rule them all: smartphone, tablet, and desktop.

A cute 2D RPG on Steam called To The Moon is heading to Linux, the game has been highly rated and looks fantastic!