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After four years of development, Micromag Systems has finally completed the Mantis Hexapod Walking Machine, claimed to be the world’s largest all-terrain operational hexapod robot. The device stands nearly three meters tall, weighs just under two tons, and is controlled by a PC/104 module stack running embedded Linux. The Mantis Hexapod Walking Machine is the [...]

Roughly six months after the launch of its “Folsom” release last fall, OpenStack on Thursday unveiled version 2013.1 “Grizzly,” the seventh and latest release of the open source software for building public, private and hybrid clouds.

Our latest benchmarks from the ASUS S56CA-WH31 Intel Ultrabook is comparing the performance of this Ivy Bridge laptop between Fedora 18 and a recent Ubuntu 13.04 development snapshot under various workloads...

Standardization in Linux is "not going to happen," said Mobile Raptor blogger Robin Lim. "What should be done instead is to stop lumping all the Linux distributions under the name 'Linux,' and just call them Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint and so on," Lim offered. "They are that diverse." In fact, "if we woke up tomorrow and only one desktop Linux distribution was left in development, we would all be better for it."

This is quite interesting, here we have the slides from Valve's GDC talk on porting over to Linux. It makes for an interesting read and lays it out very simply for the non techies.

I can't remember the last time I picked up a comScore mobile market share report and came away surprised, but that's what happened today.

Linux Advocate stalwart Ken Starks takes another hard look and shares his view of the 'Real World' as it relates to Linux from the trenches. A good read.

The Kate text editor received a large number of bug fixes for the 4.10 release, and some exciting new features. A mini-map scroll bar is now available for Kate users, and an improved notification system. If you use the Kate text editor for KDE, be sure to take advantage of the latest changes.

Linux command line aficionados assemble! "Mastering The Linux Shell - Advanced Permissions" is ready.

Jeremy Allison, Founder of Samba recalls a story of his participation at the LinuxWorld Conference, book 'Crossing the Chasm' and reminds why Linux advocacy is still vital to its ongoing success.

Loyal penguin Dr. Roy Schestowitz aligns himself to Katherine Noyes' story "What is our Goal Here" with his own recapitulation of Linux goals and priorities.

For tweaking Ubuntu in general, there is the Ubuntu Tweak that take care of most of the system tweak and configuration. However, if you are using the Unity desktop, there are some features that are not covered by Ubuntu Tweak. This is where Unity Tweak Tool comes in. Unity Tweak Tool is a configuration tool for the Unity Desktop, providing users access to features and configuration options. While most of the configuration options are available in the System Settings as well, Unity Tweak Tool brings them all together in a single place so you don’t have to search high and low for each setting.

The core for Google Chrome, Chromium, is changing rendering engines to the WebKit-based Blink. The change is said to benefit users, but what about developers?

The first “project” on Master and Server is the installation of the WordPress.org blogging software in my account at devio.us. So what is devio.us? It’s an OpenBSD server run by a group of sysadmins who offer free shell accounts and web-server space to interested users of this security-minded BSD project.

David Tavares, the developer of the Pear OS Linux operating system, has proudly announced a few hours ago (April 4) that the server edition of the highly anticipated Pear OS 7 Linux distribution is now available for download.

The micro computer Raspberry Pi has become a real hit among tech fans all over the world. The model A was sold out in the US within a few hours. Everybody wants this credit-card sized computer. And of course, being cute and cheap isnt the main reason behind its success. It is because with Raspberry Pi, people can create a lot of amazing things. And if you wonder what these amazing things are, here is a list of 10 awesome projects created with Raspberry Pi.

Heroku's Matt Thompson has announced the Helios framework, an open source backend for iOS applications which provides a range of essential services. These include data synchronisation, user accounts, push notifications, in-app purchases and passbook integration. The design focuses on "mobile first" developers who build out their applications on the mobile device and then want to implement the server-side mechanisms as they become necessary.

This tutorial shows how you can install and run a Redaxo 4.4.x web site on a Debian Wheezy or Ubuntu 12.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.

The chief developer of the popular alternative Android firmware CyanogenMod thought that requiring devices to report unique smartphone and tablet data would be an unqualified blessing. They reckoned without their users.

KDE 4.10.2 improves the desktop environment's Personal Information Management (PIM) application, Kontact, and its window manager and compositor, KWin. In total, the updated fixes 107 bugs