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Following the appearance of leaked photos showing Tizen 3.0 running on Samsung’s Galaxy S 4 phone, new rumors say the upcoming Galaxy S 5 smartphone will be available in both Android and Tizen versions. Meanwhile, an LG D300g phone uncovered in the FCC database suggest the first LG Firefox OS phone is nearing release.

After months of rumors, Valve's Steam Box might actually become a reality next week.

The open-source Xen virtualization hypervisor has undergone a transformation in recent years, revitalizing its community and generating new interest. How did it do it? - See more at: http://www.eweek.com/cloud/how-xen-virtualization-got-its-ze...

Few days before, We have featured IP Address Management system called “IPplan”. Today i have come up with an another web based IP address managent system called “phpIPAM”. For those who don’t know about phpipam, it is an open-source, simple and light weight web IP address management application. It is ajax-based using jQuery libraries, php scripts, javascript and some HTML5/CSS3 features.

In a free-wheeling Q&A session Linus Torvalds and other top Linux programmers, talked about Linux, scuba-diving, and other odds and ends of the developer life.

Hey there folks! Today I present to you a small test I did with the recent Wine 1.7.1. The video showcases the differences of games running in a normal Wine 1.7.1 versus a patched Wine 1.7.1.

Today in Open Source: Intel thinks the year of the Linux desktop is here. Plus: Linus and Moore's Law, and Tiny Core 5.0 screenshots

Intel's Ian Romanick will take to the Linux Plumbers Conference tomorrow with a plea to work together to provide better capabilities across the Linux stack for better debugging and profiling of graphics applications/systems on Linux. The open-source Intel Linux Mesa developer himself calls the current graphics debugging situation on Linux a "disaster" to be fixed.

Torvalds responds to a question about whether the U.S. government asked him to put a backdoor in Linux, and explains why he's a developer and how others can be too.

Intel CTO Dirk Hohndel sees Linux as the leading end-user operating systems - thanks to smartphones, tablets, as well as the rise of Chromebooks.

40 years ago, somewhere in Welkom, a small city located in the Free State province of South Africa, was born Mark Richard Shuttleworth, the founding father of Canonical, who develops the most popular Linux operating system in the world, Ubuntu.

Plans to build 'world's largest' mobile OS contender Independent Android firmware project CyanogenMod has become a company, thanks to a $7m Series A financing round led by Silicon Valley venture firms Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures.

AMD has unleashed earlier today, September 18, 2013, the AMD Catalyst 13.9 video driver for Linux platforms, bringing official support for the Linux kernel 3.10 branch.

Veetle is a live video streaming, viewing and broadcasting service that allows you to quickly broadcast and share your videos. Unlike other live-streaming sites, you can broadcast to an unlimited number of viewers at any given time in high quality. You can broadcast from PC’s, iOS devices (iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch) and the most popular Android devices.

Canonical announced a few hours ago, that the brand-new Mozilla Thunderbird 24 email client landed in the Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating systems.

What it's like at a LinuxCon? Join me in a virtual walk about the North America LinuxCon 2013 in New Orleans.

An elite group of nation-state hackers running roughshod through the financial sector and other industries in the U.S. has pioneered techniques that others are following, and has used sophisticated methods to go after hardened targets, including hacking a security firm to undermine the security service the company provided its clients.

Want the latest Android but your device manufacturer or carrier won't give it to you or support it? CyanogenMod can help.

The Linux Foundation announced a free Sept. 26 webinar on the “Growth of Android in Embedded Systems.” Android is increasingly being built into a wide range of consumer electronics devices and even industrial equipment where various embedded Linux distributions and real-time operating systems (RTOSes) currently rule the roost.

Google's top-open source exec explains at the LinuxCon conference why Android is open source and why open source is a key part of Android's success. NEW ORLEANS—Google Director of Open Source Chris DiBona took the keynote stage at the LinuxCon conference here on Sept. 16 with a key message: Android is open source. -