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Many companies have come to favor specialized measurable education for both their employees and those they look to hire, as witness the large number of "certified" acronyms nowadays -- CCNA, MCSE, RHCE, SCSE, LPIC, ICSA. A few years ago, you couldn't find a Linux certification program anywhere. Today, with Linux showing up all over the enterprise, training and certification programs are showing up as well. In fact, three of the six acronyms above refer to Linux certifications, not the Cisco or Microsoft certifications we're used to hearing about.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) Nigeria in association with Novell Africa is organizing a one-day Linux road-show in Lagos. The road-show is to further create awareness on the use and deployment of Suse Linux by the Information Technology (IT) community in the country. This is another step in strengthening the relationship between the two firms, especially in expanding and offering Linux from the desktop to the datacenter.

The 2.6.6 release, however, is noteworthy on several fronts beyond the usual "kernel speedups and fixups," as Morton said. The kernel's stability continues to improve as it inches closer to its initial promise of enterprise-class scalability and memory management.

Toting "DB2 on Linux" hats and green DB2 bumper stickers featuring the friendly Linux penguin logo, IBM is sending a message to DBAs that the database of choice for establishing clusters on the open source platform is DB2 -- and not products from its nemesis, Oracle Corp.

Last week I attended the International PHP Conference in Amsterdam. There was a small exhibition, but the main attraction was the large number of lectures by well-known PHP gurus. The first day was reserved for two whole-day "Power Workshops," where the audience got an elaborate introduction to either PEAR or XML processing in PHP 5. During the last two days there were almost 30 shorter sessions about various topics.

Novell Inc. has introduced a new pricing model for its Suse Enterprise Linux operating system that allows customers to pay a lower flat rate for Linux support, the company announced Wednesday. The new support offerings give Novell's customers an alternative to its existing per-system support contracts, and could make life a little easier for Linux users who have been critical of the per-system and per-processor support offerings of Novell and its rival Red Hat Inc.

In an effort to help higher-level developers build payment and transaction functions into their Web sites and applications, PayPal has released a suite of free APIs that the eBay-owned company claims will enable more streamlined and automated access to its platform. PayPal Developer Network director Dave McClure told NewsForge the initial three API calls are just the beginning of a series of APIs the company will release over coming quarters.

IBM Workplace, a new application management model launched this week, is bound to spell changes ahead for Linux developers, administrators, and desktop users. Just what kind of impact should the Linux community expect?

Three companies - Linux cluster vendor California Digital, Quadrics, and Intel - have just announced that they have successfully deployed the most powerful Linux supercomputer ever built: a state-of-the-art turnkey solution for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory codenamed "Thunder."

For those wanting to run Windows under Linux, CodeWeavers, Inc. has zeroed in on thirty popular apps like Lotus Notes 6.51 and MS Project.

NetBSD's Linux emulation doesn't run a Linux kernel on a virtual machine; it runs Linux binaries on a NetBSD kernel. Linux emulation let you run plenty of useful programs that won't run natively under NetBSD, such as Sun's 1.4 Java Runtime Environment and JDK.

Opennet, master distributor for Red Hat in the Middle East and Africa, has announced the availability of the Red Hat Desktop, the first market deliverable of its client strategy.

How one company is making the move to open-source software for their computing needs.

Typical open-source project development strategies work well for free software but don't flourish in commercial settings, according to one expert. Jim Herbsleb, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University's International School of Computer Science, part of the Institute for Software Research, previously worked at Bell Labs at Lucent Technologies Inc., where he studied why open-source projects such as Apache have been so successful in employing a distributed development method. He spoke at the Open Source Conference in Toronto this week.

For the second time in as many months, Microsoft has published source code for one of its projects on SourceForge, the world's largest open-source software development repository. The software giant announced plans to release the Windows Template Library (WTL) project on SourceForge under an externally created open-source license. The idea is to encourage a larger pool of developers to tinker with the code and improve the bug-finding process.

When looking for a Web hosting server, one of the first things you often have to consider is what operating system the server will run. Now, this article is not about proving that one OS is better or worse than another, and if you already have a bias, then I would recommend you stick to it. This article is not trying to convince you to change.

Peter Naulls' Debian ARM Linux project will be demonstrating at this weekend's Wakefield show, in Yorkshire, UK. Up until recently, Debian ARM for RiscPCs had been unusuable and uninstallable due to lack of maintenance, and Peter was pleased to announce that as of late, "these issues have now been largely addressed (with caveats), and support added for Kinetic machines and RapIDE IDE cards."

Citing a report released in March by Forrester Research, Chan said Microsoft is the only company that fixed all the flaws found in its platform, unlike Red Hat Inc, Debian Systems, Mandrakesoft and Suse, who are the major developers of the open-source Linux operating system.

An increasing number of large corporations in SA [South Africa] are adopting Linux technology for use in their mission-critical and server environments.

A House of Representatives subcommittee convened Wednesday for the first hearing devoted to a proposal to defang the DMCA, a 1998 law that broadly restricts bypassing copy-protection technologies used in DVDs, a few music CDs and some software programs.