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In this series of four tutorials, Ben Martin provides step-by-step instructions, code, and troubleshooting tips to take you through the process of building, powering, connecting, and controlling your own Mantis robot mounted with a Raspberry Pi. Martin explains in detail how to attach motors, mount a RoboClaw motor controller, and then connect it to your Raspberry Pi through a USB port. He provides a program for controlling the robot with the keyboard and then extends the program so you can use a PS3 joystick to control your robotic creation.

Eleven years after he rocked the Linux community by withdrawing the non-commercial version of BitKeeper, his source code management system, Larry McVoy has finally been forced to open source the application.

I follow several Web comics. I used to open my Web browser and check out each comic's Web site. That method was fine when I read only a few Web comics, but it became a pain to stay current when I followed more than about ten comics. These days, I read around 20 Web comics. It takes a lot of time to open each Web site separately just to read a Web comic.

The Linux community is very large, it's around the globe. The community works very hard to solve new Linux users' issues. But The Linux Foundation has been working hard to not just solve issues of individual users but also train them the best and easiest way possible. The Linux Foundation has introduced many courses from beginner level to Kernel development. Recently The Linux Foundation has launched LFD301, Introduction To Linux, Open Source Development and Git.

We recently interviewed John Dulaney on how he uses Fedora. This is part of a series here on the Fedora Magazine where we will profile Fedora users and how they use Fedora to get things done. If you are interested... Continue Reading →

Left pad chaos highlighted madness behind scenes Open Source Insider Open source software rarely receives the kind of attention that the press lavishes on the latest hot new thing blessed by Silicon Valley venture capitalists. Yet these projects are the foundations of the web world.…

When you’re talking big data analysis, you’re almost always talking open source. Apache Hadoop is what often comes to mind as a valuable big data analysis tool. But do you know the advantages that Apache Spark has to offer? This May 5 presentation from IBM’s Government Analytics Forum in Washington, DC does a nice job of explaining the advantages.

phpwcms is a free and open source content management system and PHP development framework. It is very powerful, fast and flexible. It’s used by developers to create thousands of websites around the world.

Raspberry Pi Foundation's Simon Long today announced that a major update is available for the main Linux kernel-based operating system for Raspberry Pi single-board computers.

This tutorial will be the first in a series that will help you create continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for your applications.

Google is stepping up its game of open-sourcing tools for improved language parsing in smart AI, and Parsey McParseface is the latest name on the list.

Ubuntu 16.04, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 and Fedora 24 beta bring new open source container, storage and security solutions to the Linux ecosystem.

Tip for auto-completion of commonly edited files using the bash "complete" built-in. Just define a "word list" file with our file names, and alias your favourite editor.

The folks behind the free but proprietary Opera browser announced today that the latest developer build includes Power Saving Mode, a new feature that the company claims can extend battery life by up to 50 percent. If true, this could be a serious game changer. Free and open source software advocates should hope that the developers at Mozilla are paying attention.

openSUSE Project's Douglas DeMaio today informed the openSUSE Tumbleweed community about the latest GNU/Linux technologies that landed in the rolling release operating system.

The latest version of the most popular server Linux, RHEL, is now ready to be deployed in your business.

A tiny open source “MiQi” SBC that runs Linux or Android on a Rockchip RK3288, with HDMI, GbE, four USB ports, and expansion headers has launched on Indiegogo.

Thanks to a few different people for their advice I have finally found a way to stop screen tearing with Nvidia proprietary drivers.

The Linux Foundation has launched a new self-paced, online course to help senior Linux sysadmins prepare for the advanced Linux Foundation Certified Engineer (LFCE) exam.

At CoreOS Fest, Lennart Poettering, one of the co-inventors of systemd explains how it works and how it compares to SELinux