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Open source has come a long, long way and video editing has not been left behind. You'll find a number of video editing tools on Linux, but none of them are both as user-friendly and create as high-quality video as OpenShot Video Editor. With this easy to use tool you can have your edited videos up on Youtube (or presented to your company/organization) in no time. With a very small learning curve, and numerous features, OpenShot will make you and your company look very good. Let's take a look at how mult-track videos can be created in OpenShot.

At the Linux.conf.au conference, an Australian-based "Lunar Numbat" project presented its plan for a Linux-based flight control computer for a lunar spacecraft. The open source flight computer will be part of the "White Label Space" entry in Google's $20 million Lunar X-Prize, to be awarded to a team that can send a working rover to the Moon and transmit back images.

In November of 2009 we reported that the Reiser4 file-system may go into the mainline Linux kernel in late 2010. We're now into 2011 with the merge window having closed earlier this month for the Linux 2.6.38 kernel and there's no sign of this open-source file-system designed to succeed the popular ReiserFS. So what gives? Well, we have another update from its lead developer.

Special purpose appliance distributions are one of the things that Linux does extremely well. You can find any number of task-specific appliances from either Turnkey Linux or on the VMware Virtual Appliance marketplace. Another option is to roll your own with a service like Novell's SUSE Studio. In this article we'll take a look at four different specialized distributions targeted at the job of an Internet firewall or traffic router. Our list of candidates for this job includes Clear OS, m0n0wall, Untangle and Vyatta. We'll give you a quick introduction to each along with some context to help steer you in the direction that makes the most sense for your application. Each one has its own set of features and distinctive, and we'll try to highlight those for you.

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.