From LinuxPR: LinuxCertified.com, a leading provider of Linux training, will offer its next
weekend System Administration bootcamp on January 20-21, 2001 in San
Francisco
bay area (south bay). This workshop is designed for busy information technology
professionals and is designed to cover the most important Linux administration
areas.

LWN.net publishes a Japanese interview with Open Source advocate Eric S. Raymond: “Well I can think of a couple of pieces of news that I think are of importance. The first one
that occurred to me was when it was revealed that Andy Hertzfeld and the rest of the original
Macintosh interface designers were going to work explicitly on producing an end user interface,
GUI, for Linux. That was spectacular news.

Another piece of spectacular news was the announcement that StarOffice was going to be open
source as OpenOffice. It’s important because it’s going to take a productivity suite with features
comparable to Microsoft Office to make Linux truly competitive on the desktop, and Open
Office is a very large step towards that.”

TechWeb also has a story about IBM’s love for Open Source: “IBM Corp. chairman Louis Gerstner said the Internet is
forcing companies to look toward open computing
standards rather than the closed systems developed by
technology giants like EMC Corp., Sun Microsystems and
Microsoft Corp.”

At PR Newswire: CodeWeavers, Inc., the leading
Windows-to-Linux software developer and consultancy, today announced the
availability of the Preview Edition of CodeWeavers Wine, the open-source
software converter that runs Windows applications on Linux and other
Intel-based Unix platforms. Until now, access to revisions of Wine has been
confined to a worldwide network of resourceful Windows programmers.
CodeWeavers Wine Preview Edition is the first version available for general
public use and is a prelude to CodeWeavers Wine 1.0; the commercial-quality
release anticipated for the first half of 2001. The tools that CodeWeavers
added to Wine make this preview release “the Wine for the rest of us.”

CNN reports that the author of the pro-Linux “Prolin” worm has so far eluded authorities, but the damage from the email worm has been minimal.

From Business Wire:Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq:RHAT), the leader in developing, deploying
and managing open source solutions today announced that Keio University will build a large-scale campus network server system using Red Hat Linux
7 and IBM Netfinity 4500R server, from Japan IBM Corporation. This campus server network system will also adopt the new IBM eServer
xSeries network servers from IBM Japan.

LinuxWorld.com reports on the LinuxWorld Conference in Malaysia: “The most exciting aspect of the whole conference was the level of interest expressed by Malaysians in becoming
involved in the whole open source phenomenon. Many people approached me after my Ethereal tutorial, as well as on
other occasions, asking how to get involved in the open source movement.”

ZDNet UK reports: “A leading UK Internet rights group is to warn United Nations representatives that international plans to fight cybercrime pose a serious menace to the privacy and rights of all Internet users. Yaman Akdeniz, director of Cyber Rights & Cyber Liberties is expected to warn that developing techniques to combat high-tech crime could lead to unjustified Internet surveillance.”

“Linux2order.com, the online resource offering the largest and most current selection of Linux applications on the Internet, today announced a partnership with the U.K.-based open source services provider SlashTCO, Ltd. The partnership, Linux2order.com’s first significant entry into the global open source marketplace, will enable the company to reach a broader audience of Linux users in European markets.” Press release at Internet Wire.

The Register reports that major IT players have signed on to a NASA research effort that aims to create a crash-proof computer. “We wish the consortium well, but can’t resist the observation that the fortunes of the IT industry over the last 30 years haven’t exactly been hurt by the production of ropy software and servers that are up down like a pair of tart’s knickers”