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 Linux Professional Institute appoints new President and CEO, Dec 01, 2005

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), (http://www.lpi.org), the world's premier Linux certification organization, is pleased to announce that LPI Board member, Jim Lacey, has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the organization.

The tuXlabs project, which installs Linux-based thin client computers into schools across South Africa, won a Communtiy Builder award last night. The award, which recognises projects that contribute to skills development and opportunities in the country, was presented at an event at the Sandton Convention Centre.

Bryant University in Rhode Island was ranked the the "second most connected campus in America" by the Princeton Review in October 2004. The school offers a wide variety of Web services, including online registration and course materials, a digital asset library, and a large interconnected campus, and they're all powered by Linux.

Stirling University has moved its SAP payroll and human resources (HR) system to an open source Red Hat Linux operating system.

The Chinese government is embracing the penguin. It awarded a $42.7 million contract last week to Sun Wah Linux Ltd. for 141,000 desktop PCs running the open-source operating system for primary and secondary schools in Jiangsu Province

Stirling University has improved performance three-fold and lowered project costs by moving its SAP human resources and payroll system over to Linux.

Sirius Corporation, the UK's leading Linux and open source consultancy, installed the new network of 28 workstations connected to a high-powered server running the LTSP Linux terminal server.

The penguins were on the streets of Kanata yesterday, searching for scarce Linux software developers.

The 3,000-student university took top honors at the first-ever TuxMasters Invitational coding competition, which awarded Clarkson both first and second place in the intercollegiate contest.

An Italian province will use Linux rather than Windows XP in its schools for the next academic year

Some 16,000 students in the mountainous South Tyrol province of Bolzano in northern Italy will find 2,460 classroom computers upgraded from Windows to Linux when they return to school this month.

Thousands of secondary schools students in the French region of Auvergne will receive CDs containing free and open-source software when they return to school in September.

Hundreds of thousands of Linux machines could eventually be deployed in the state of Indiana

De Montfort University is anticipating major cost savings and service efficiencies from using open source Linux as well as Novell's identity management software.

The New Zealand government has signed a deal with Novell that will give 2,600 schools across the country access to Linux servers and desktops for a reduced price

Novell has signed a national agreement with the New Zealand Ministry of Education to provide all state and state-integrated schools with a range of Novell software, including SUSE Linux operating systems.

The UK government's school computing agency, Becta, has said schools could save costs by switching to what is known as open source software.

The South Korean government is moving forward with a program to roll out servers running the Linux operating system that will handle student data for 10,000 of the nation's schools by 2006

I've been at the third annual New England Linux Symposium on the campus of Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine for the past three days, meeting and learning from folks from all over Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire who are working to implement Linux and other open source solutions in their schools.

The South Korean government is rolling out a homegrown open source platform to 10,000 schools in the country.

The Shuttleworth-backed tuXlabs programme and the Schools Linux User Group volunteers yesterday installed 10 Linux-based laboratories in schools in the Western Cape, South Africa. What makes this particularly notable isthat the installations were done by volunteers and they completed the task before midday.

Schools considering a move to open source face a tricky decision, but the momentum is on their side

Linux and open source software have a problem in Australia's education sector.

Free software could appear in more UK schools now that Schoolforge-UK and the Open Source Consortium have teamed up

School is almost out, and before you know it Duke’s Unix computers will be as well.

Recently, Bacone's technologist Robert Duncan III, transferred a Linux hobby into huge savings for the school's IT department.

A plethora of partners, led by IBM, launched Africa's first Linux competency centre 15 March in Johannesburg, South Africa.

So you've decided you want to earn a Linux certification and get trained. The next question you should be asking is "which training institution should I choose?"

Incorporated as Class 101 Corp., SafeDesk makes what are called Linux-based thin-client products.

The project is still at the pilot stage and EduVision staff are on the ground to attend to teething problems with the Linux-based system.

In Yale's Computer Science Department and CS computing cluster, also known as the Zoo, the UNIX-based Linux is the platform of choice. The Linux operating system benefits from a usership that actively tries to improve its function.

The International Open Source Network, an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme, has produced a 48-page primer on "Free/Open Source Software and Education," which is now available for free public download.

One of the hits of this year's BETT trade show is a company selling an open source desktop operating system for schools

The Chilean government's high school Internet access network Enlaces plans to install Linux operating systems in 600 schools, after a trial project with Edulinux in 25 establishments, local newspaper El Mercurio reported.

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