Rajesh Goyal writes
“LinuxCertified announces the weekend system administration
bootcamp for busy IT professionals.

– All attendees get a free Linux laptop!

Media Contact:

info@linuxcertified.com
http://www.linuxcertified.com/

LinuxCertified, Inc., a leading provider of Linux training, will offer weekend system administration bootcamp on September 1-2, 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.

In addition to carefully designed lecture material delivered by experienced Linux professionals, there is a heavy emphasis on hands-on learning. The training starts two weeks before the actual class,with access to an online Linux server, where students complete few challenging pre-class activities. Attendees get a powerful Linux laptop on their arrival, along with other class materials. They load Linux on their laptop during the class, and use it for all the class activities and assignments. At the end of the class they take this laptop with them to further enhance their Linux expertise. Absolute beginners with no UNIX experience can first come to the popular “Linux for Beginners” class and subsequently join the
system administration bootcamp.

Rapid growth of Linux into corporate and government IT environments is fueling the need for Linux certified
professionals. CIOs and managers are eager to have Linux experts in their organizations. A certification provides a
tangible mechanism for their hiring evaluation, as well as a means to market the prowess of organizations.

“As an independent IT consultant I am always on my toes to learn new technologies, without much free time to
devote to classes. The LinuxCertified.com bootcamp was a perfect way for me to jump start my Linux knowledge. I
can now use Linux as a valuable tool in my career,” said Taylor Cottam, an independent consultant who joined one of
the LinuxCertified.com weekend bootcamps.

This weekend bootcamp is specially designed to prepare the attendees for the objectives of Level 1 certification
exams offered by Linux Professional Institute (LPI). The workshop also meets the objectives of the Red Hat Certified
Engineer (RHCE) exam and Sair Linux & GNU certification (LCA).

Our attendees build a strong sense of community with our instructors, fellow students, and our network of recruiters
and companies looking for Linux consultants.

About LinuxCertified.com

The mission of LinuxCertified.com is to bring Linux to mainstream IT usage. We firmly believe that Linux has an
enormous potential, once it crosses over from the early adopters to the more mainstream users. Our goal is to help this
transition by providing:

– Linux trained and certified professionals

– Linux certified products that cater to mainstream users rather than early adopters.

Contact:

info@linuxcertified.com

http://www.linuxcertified.com/
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
Linux Professionals Institute and the LPI logo are trademarks of the Linux Professional Institute, Inc.
RED HAT is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc.
LinuxCertified.com is an independent entity from organizations providing Linux certification exams, and they do not sponsor our classes.
All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.”

Linux Weekly News’ weekly edition is up for this week, discussing when exactly Linux’ birthday is, and the rap Richard Stallman’s GNU/antics have been getting.

ZDNet evaluates and compares 7 different flavours of Linux for their usability in the enterprise environment. The distributions compared are include Caldera OpenLinux eServer, Debian GNU/Linux, Red Hat, SuSE, Linux-Mandrake, Slackware, and Turbolinux.

Debian Planet is pitching Debian Gnu/Linux as an alternative operating system for users of BeOS, which will soon be discontinued.

Wireless Newsfactor reports that TeleData Technology “is shipping the first commercially available voice-messaging application based entirely on the open-source Linux operating system.”

Kelly McNeill writes “What is the best possible outcome of the Microsoft monopoly case for Microsoft, for the rest of the software providers, and for consumers? I have some suggestions. The court should rule as a matter of law that neither Microsoft nor any other software vendor can exempt itself from product liability in its EULA (end-user license agreement) unless the company makes all of its source code available with compilers and other necessary supplemental software so that the end user, or some entity contracted by the end user, has the opportunity to verify the integrity of the machine’s usable instructions and data.”

Computer User: “An independent computer programmer in Germany has discovered that malicious hackers could wield
seemingly ordinary-looking Web pages to send commands to servers behind such barriers as
corporate firewalls.

Jochen Topf, whose own software credits include a POP3-protocol server for managing user access to
large e-mail systems, says he found that many common Web browsers can be tricked into passing on
commands from hackers unbeknownst to the browsers’ users.”

Qwest DSL customers who experienced Code Red-induced outages earlier this month won’t get any relief from their provider. Refusing the pleas of the Washington State Attorney General, the telco says the problem was the virus, and not its modems, and “Qwest is not crediting for the virus.” Associated Press story on CNET.

Reuters at Wired News: “More than 50 music publishers and songwriters, including country artist Vince Gill, on Wednesday said they filed a
copyright infringement suit against Web music firm MP3.com.

The lawsuit was filed last week in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against MP3.com, which is being
acquired by Vivendi Universal and is currently transforming itself from music industry rebel to partner.

Plaintiffs also include the estate of Roy Orbison.”

Kelly McNeill writes “Despite controversial comments recently made by Ransom Love, the chief executive officer of Caldera International, Inc., saying that the GPL (General Public License) was holding back commercial Linux vendors like Caldera and thus upsetting a significant portion of the open-source community, Mr. Love’s company went on record earlier this week to announce that Caldera will open-source the AIM performance benchmarks and the UNIX Regular Expression Parser, along with two UNIX utilities, awk and grep, under the GPL. Because GNU is gradually taking the place of the original Unix, many are suggesting that Mr. Stallman’s recursive GNU acronym (“GNU’s Not Unix”) may eventually have to be renamed, “GNU is Now Unix.”“