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Cloud.com to partner with Zenoss, Opscode and Rackspace to offer free workshop to teach users how to build and manage an open source cloud computing environment

Linus Torvalds has probably done more for the world than many know, and his influence stretches far and wide throughout all corners of the globe with a variety of amazing implementations of his original vision that started almost two decades ago.

Google announced a Feb. 2 unveiling of Android 3.0 ("Honeycomb") at its Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif. Meanwhile, Dell tweets that it will soon offer a 10-inch Honeycomb tablet, and hackers have ported Android 3.0 to Barnes & Nobles's Nook Color e-reader device.

This tutorial describes how awk can use operators to increment or decrement as well as other arithmetic functions. awk uses four arithmetic functions: + addition - subtraction * multiplication and / division.

This tutorial describes OpenLDAP installation on a computer running Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS or any distribution based on the package installer "yum." If you use a distribution with another package installer we install the same packages but with the installer for (aptitude for Debian-based distros).

SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin says sales at the open source company grew more than 50 percent in 2010. And a lot of that growth involved partners deploying SugarCRM in the cloud. Here are the deeper details.

Started by one of our readers more than a week ago was a compiler deathmatch for comparing the performance of GCC, LLVM Clang, PCC (the Portable C Compiler), TCC (Tiny C Compiler), and Intel's C Compiler under Arch Linux. This user did not stop there with compiling these different x86_64 code compilers, but he also went on to look at the compiler performance with different compiler flags, among other options. The results are definitely worth looking at and here are some more.

In an overwhelming vote for renaming, the Hudson project is to become Jenkins. A vote was announced and held on the Hudson developers mailing list after the breakdown of discussions with Oracle over the governance and management of the CI (continuous integration) software. Oracle claims to own the Hudson trademark and believes that this ownership should give it control over the project.

LXer Feature: 31-Jan-2011

In the LXWR this week it is all about the desktop environments. Bruce Byfield makes a case for running Xfce, Dr. Tony Young wrangles KDE4's window manager into shape and Carla Schroder wants to punt KDE altogether. The Fedora servers get hacked, Python for newbies, LibreOffice 3.3 hits the streets and Glyn Moody states why Android will win the tablet wars. Enjoy!

Ten years in the making, the EFLs released their first stable revision this weekend. One of the things I mentioned in my Eight Tech Signs the World Might be Coming to an End was that the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries had reached a beta state. Something I mentioned briefly in my announcement about the Bodhi Release candidate was that it was now shipping with the EFL 1.0 libraries.

If you've been wanting to get involved in supporting Linux and other open-source projects with or without a programming background, or you have creative ideas how to get involved, see this thread.

KDE 4.6 was supposed to ship with a transparent Oxygen style but in the end it didn't make it "due to serious issues (notably with embedded widgets, such as videos) which cannot be fixed at the style level". But that doesn't mean you can't install Oxygen-Transparent. Read on!

Next weekend (5-6 February 2011) is FOSDEM, one of the largest gatherings of Free Software developers in the world. KDE will be in Brussels with a stall and as part of the crossdesktop devroom. KDE talks will cover: education, an introduction to Qt and Qt Quick, Phonon, KDE on Windows and mentoring. In the crossdesktop devroom, there will be other talks on topics such as application distribution and games development, which will be interesting to KDE developers too.

The script command is part of the util-linux-ng package and so should be available already installed in any distribution, or you should be able to easily add it.

Twice in the past week I have gotten into discussions with friends about the topic of processor architecture. One of these discussions was about the cell processor and the other is about the ARM chip.

Fuduntu 14.8-4 has been released. This release offers no new improvements to the distribution and instead focuses on fixing bugs to improve the existing experience. Barring any significant issues forcing an early release of 14.8-5, this release will be the last ISO release of Fuduntu 14 for the remainder of the first quarter of 2011, allowing the main focus of development to shift to Fuduntu 15.

Today the Bodhi team and I are happy to announce our release candidate (0.1.5) is now available to the general public. This disc includes a number of package updates, most notably Firefox beta 10 and EFL 1.0 stable release. Because a picture is worth a thousand words the following is a screen shot overview of some of the changes in the release candidate.

Point-of sale (POS) is the location where a transaction takes place. It also refers to the immediate capture of transactions and customer payment information when goods and services are purchased. This data can be obtained using many different devices such as a computer, cash register, barcode scanner, PIN pads, and magnetic card readers.

Mandriva Linux's latest release is testament to the work done by developers to make it one of the easiest to use Linux releases ever.

FUDcon:Tempe 2011 starts today. 3 days of tech goodness in sunny Arizona. Things kick off with the orientation, BarCamp pitches and the State of Fedora Address at 09:00. Presentation sessions run all day Saturday and Sunday. Hackfests start on Sunday afternoon with more scheduled for Monday.