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Google may be keeping quiet on when the Google TV platform will be updated to the Jelly Bean operating system, but developers are already hard at work.

With all of the recent concern over the US government’s National Security Agency (NSA) some of the attention has turn to the possibility of backdoors. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, a backdoor is an intentional vulnerability in an operating system or software that allows otherwise unauthorized users to gain access to the system. Back in 2003 someone attempted to insert a backdoor into the Linux kernel. Though caught, it illustrates how seemingly innocuous changes can introduce vulnerabilities and the importance of tractability in source control.

Come Sunday and Linus Torvalds is ready to release the next release candidate for Linux kernel – this week it was the Linux 3.12-rc5.

Ever since Oracle bought MySQL a fair number of MySQL users started looking for an alternative, due mainly to doubts that Oracle would be a good steward of a key software project. Let's go back in time a little bit to understand what's at stake, and look at the reasons to move away from, or stay with MySQL.

According to data from an international recruiting firm, senior Android app developers earn more than equally experienced iOS developers.

It doesn’t matter which operating system you are using, you will surely come across a misbehaving application that lock itself up and refuse to close. In Linux (and Mac), there is this “kill” command that you can use to terminate the application forcefully. In this tutorial, we will show you the various way you can make use of the “kill” command to terminate an application.

Low-cost marketing, hard bargains, keeping competitors in check -- profiteering abounds in the open source community. Over time, companies realized they could make money and give away the software at the same time.

Recently, there has been much debate as to whether developers are better served beginning mobile software production iOS- or Android-first.

Crave's Eric Mack has been testing a prototype of the fully open-source PengPod 1040, just now wrapping up its crowdfunding campaign, and he's reached a few conclusions about the underdog slate.

Starting out as a new developer doesn't have to be overwhelming. The latest video in our Ask a Dev series takes a look at the best tutorials for aspiring Android developers.

Android users have quite a few choices when it comes to web browsers on their phone or tablet. They can use the stock browser, or install a third party browser of which there are plenty available. They can use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox for example, Opera Mini or Mobile, or web browsers such as Dolphin, UC Browser or Boat.

Valve wrapped up its trio of announcements a couple of weeks ago by unveiling its Stream Controller, a unique gamepad designed to play with upcoming Steam Machines running Steam OS. The Steam Controller represents a move away from the traditional keyboard and mouse combo that have been so dominant on the PC platform.

It would only take one "killer" game for the Linux platform to explode its way into mainstream gaming, DICE creative director Lars Gustavsson told Polygon, revealing that the development studio would "strongly" like to get into Linux.

We all love our smartphones and tablets, but they go out of style so fast. With newer and more powerful gadgets coming out every six months or so, it doesn’t take long for old phones to pile up around the house, especially if you’re on a family plan. You could recycle these old phones, or sell them, but we have a better idea. You should root it (here’s how to root) and turn it into a server for any one of the many needs you may have!

Linux is not for everyone, just the way not everyone likes roses; some like lilies. Since an operating system is not a flower it’s less about preferences and more about what gets your job done in the best possible manner. An operating system is a very powerful tool which assists us in getting things done.

In the most incalculably ironic twist of fate ever devised by the computer gods, the iPhone 5S with iOS 7 is afflicted by a bug that results in a random Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) and then a complete reboot. While the iPhone BSOD lacks the mumbo-jumbo of mostly useless information that’s present on the Windows BSOD, the similarities between the iPhone 5S/iOS 7 and Windows BSODs are shocking — even the shade of blue is virtually the same.

Irina Blok may have drawn one of the most recognized logos in the world, but her association with the green Android has not made her famous. Blok can think of only one incident when she garnered the public’s attention for designing it. In 2010, she and her 6-year-old daughter were in a movie theater waiting for “Alice in Wonderland” to begin when an Android logo flashed on the screen. Her daughter, Blok recalls, suddenly stood up and yelled, “My mommy invented that!” Everyone in the row in front of them turned around to stare. Blok was so embarrassed, she says, that she sank down behind her tub of popcorn.

Prey is an open source device tracking app that supports not only iOS and OS X but also Android, Linux, and Windows.

With Microsoft and Intel becoming "outright competitors," Hewlett-Packard sees most of the PC growth happening outside the Windows market. That means Android, Chrome, and Ubuntu.

Unlike commercial operating systems such as Windows or Mac OS X, Linux stands alone because of its unique nature. One of the major benefits of using this OS is that it is open source, meaning that the underlying source code may be used, modified, and distributed as its users see fit.