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 Danish students launch open source and shareware beer, Dec 31, 2004

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A group of IT-students fra the IT-University in Copenhagen has launched a new "open-source" beer, writes the technical journal Ingeniøren.

With an open-source computing solution such as Linux, students could actually create needed software for the school and then possibly distribute it via Internet for others to use. Not only would that look good on a resume but also give the student valuable experience working with others that is not easily obtained otherwise.

Information security, VoIP, Java and Linux are key growth areas for US training in 2005, according to training provider The Training Camp.

IBM's Linux Scholar Challenge is one of a few programs to drum up enthusiasm among students worldwide in Linux and open-source software.

The Indian education sector will soon be provided with Linux-based solutions, thanks to the partnership between Intel India and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay.

A low key ceremony in the office of the Chief Minister, Oommen Chandy, on Wednesday, saw the launch of a programme anchored by the Centre for Development of Imaging Technology (C-DIT), where 107 computer training institutes spread across all 14 districts of Kerala have been beefed up as `Linux Technology Extension (LiTE) centres.'

Open source activists need to get Linux into schools if Windows' pre-eminance on the desktop is ever to be seriously challenged, a panel discussion at LinuxWorld conference in London last week concluded.

One of the UK's IT training firms is seeing increasing demand for Linux courses, but experts say that there's a lot more going on in other parts of the world

New Breed Software has announced the immediate availability of major update to its children's art and drawing program, TuxPaint.

South African retailer Pick ‘n Pay has donated more than 800 computer workstations to the Shuttleworth Foundation’s tuXlab programme to assist the Foundation in their drive to increase the usage of open source software in South African schools. The donation will enable the establishment of up to 40 new tuXlabs in schools.

South Korea's education ministry could soon switch to the Linux operating system--a further testament to the growing popularity of open-source software among regional governments.

The project, which would rank as one of the largest Linux installations in the country, aims to link all primary and secondary schools and relevant government departments through a common system known as the National Education Information System.

Students, faculty, and staff returning to Golden Gate University this fall will have remote access to database, printing, and E-mail functions from any Web browser, no longer having to connect through the school's network. The reason for this newfound freedom: open-source software.

The implication of the San Francisco institution using open source goes deeper than simply trying an alternative to proprietary products. It shows how the popularity of open source is influencing the strategy of proprietary software vendors, especially how they deal with older products.

Golden Gate this summer is testing iFolder, iPrint, and NetMail software, products that Novell turned over to the open-source community. Novell, which has a long-standing reputation for providing a solid network operating system, two years ago contributed once-proprietary code to the open-source community. Last year, it went a step further into open source, acquiring operating-system vendor SuSE Linux and Ximian Inc., a maker of Linux desktop software.

A £7.5m Cambridge University drugs research institute has adopted a Linux-driven 64-bit computing system to handle data on tablet formulation and drug doses.

The Pfizer Institute, a collaboration between the University of Cambridge, the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre and drugs company Pfizer, has installed a Beowulf high-performance computing cluster based on dual Intel Itanium 2 processors within an eight-node HP Integrity rx2600 system.

This turnkey solution is powered by RedHat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server, and was configured by reseller Cambridge Online Systems.

When schools buy software, there seems to be only one choice: Microsoft. Why don't more of them use Linux? It can do most of the work, it's more secure and it's free. Michael Pollitt investigates

A pilot project in Africa that aims to provide a single computer that can be used by four students simultaneously has stumbled across one of the business world's basic facts of life.

Why make a cheap machine when customers in the developed world will pay good money for a more expensive one?

The question hangs over efforts being made by American computer-maker Hewlett Packard, which in the last two weeks introduced the Multi-user 441 desktop, a computer based on the open-source Linux operating system.

The school district wants to move its Oracle database and Business Objects Crystal Enterprise business-intelligence software from Windows to Linux., and the debut of Business Objects' Crystal Enterprise 10 for Linux moved it a step closer to that goal.

American colleges and universities are often on the cutting edge of Linux and open source use -- collaborating across campuses, enabling student and faculty open source projects, and providing unique experimentation and testing environments -- but when it comes to teaching Linux and open source development, administration, or other knowhow, it appears higher education has just been accepted for early admission.

The Dublin Institute of Technology has said that a new e-learning system is transforming student life and its lecturers' attitudes to teaching.

The Institute's WebCT system went live in September, and is used regularly by around a quarter of its 20,000 students.

Kevin O'Rourke, project manager for learning technology at the Institute, said: "It's changing things for students, certainly, but also for the lecturers.

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