Rajesh Goyal writes: “LinuxCertified.com offers the weekend system administration
bootcamp for busy IT professionals. All attendees get a free Linux laptop.”

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LinuxCertified.com, a leading provider of Linux training, will
offer its next weekend system administration bootcamp on August
4 – 5, 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.”

phantom writes: “Since 2 days the devNET ircd is running. This network was created by developers for developers. We want to build a little chat network for developers. But why?
So many irc networks on the world and now another one was created. The idea of a chat network for a special group is not new,
but she is good we think. We hope that new OpenSource projects create
channel for these projects or group here on our network. So all developers
are collected in one great community. ..

Ipv6 support and an linked irc-s server cooming soon.

please give it a chance for little developers 😉

Source: LinuxCommunity.de“

KDEDotNews: ”
George Russell today released Speaker, a first salvo at making Konqueror (the KDE web browser) synthesize text to speech and hence making Konqueror useable by people with visual impairments and by people who are otherwise unable to view a screen.”

Anonymous Reader writes “This guest editorial at linuxdevices.com paints a picture of a future in which we are surrounded by myriad smart devices, each running the combo of an embedded Linux OS along with a Java application programming environment.”

– By Grant Gross –

This week’s biggest controversy started as a press release from the folks at MySQL AB, who run MySQL.com, denouncing the launch of “obscure” MySQL.org, scheduled to happen July 16.

But the story quickly got more complicated, with MySQL services company NuSphere, which is launching the .org, and MySQL AB, which employs the original MySQL coders, involved in a complicated business dispute about a deteriorating agreement the two companies had. The two database companies are now suing each other, with MySQL AB claiming NuSphere is using its trademark without permission and violating the GPL by not releasing accompanying software in a commercial release of MySQL, and NuSphere, in return, saying MySQL AB won’t accept any changes to its Open Sourced code.

The week ended with both sides telling their side of the story on the MySQL mailing list. While the sides seem to be remaining civil, there is obviously a wide difference in their points of view. Look for MySQL action soon in a courtroom somewhat near you.

Who needs .Net anyway?

A couple of Open Source/Free Software projects that intend to replace or at least respond to Microsoft’s huge .Net initiative made their public debuts this week. The Free Software Foundation endorsed the Ximian-led Mono project and FreeDevelopers.Net’s DotGNU project. Mono is an Open Source implementation of some of the .Net developer tools, while DotGNU intends to offer an entire alternative to the Microsoft platform.

Are you confused about what all this .Net stuff is? NewsForge tries to explain it, as well as the several projects the Open Source and Free Software communities are launching in response.

But why?

Speaking of the Free Software Foundation, this has already ruffled a few feathers: A column at osOpinion suggested the Free Software Foundation must die because of its lack of “technical perspective.” Apparently, the author thinks the FSF approves odd projects, instead of throwing its weight, and thus the “community’s scarce resources” behind better projects. Define “scarce resources” for us, please?

All about Microsoft

It’s hard to get through one of these wrap-ups without mentioning the closed-source colossus once or twice. This week, Microsoft allowed its computer-building partners the option of installing competing software of more variety.

But that doesn’t stop Microsoft from acting like an evil giant when it needs to. One report this week had the company demanding software license fees from an Australian charity that gives away used PCs to poor people. Those damn charities, trying to get away with cheating multi-billionaire Bill Gates out of few license fees! Another report had Microsoft going after inner-city public schools.

Finally, New Mexico announced it was settling its antitrust case against Microsoft, although attorneys general from several other states vowed to battle on.

New in NewsForge

Stories reported first in NewsForge this week:

News editor Tina Gasperson talks to several developers about how to get started, at least in the desktop world. It’s a story that generated a lot of debate and discussion. (By the way, did you notice that each NewsForge Report now has its own discussion section?)

Business columnist Jack Bryar checks out a test version of Windows XP and tells what it means to the Open Source community.

use Perl;: “I have made the selections for the lightning talks session at O’Reilly’s TPC 2001. The tentative schedule (likely to change) is available.”

The Globe and Mail: “Las Vegas ? At the world’s largest hacker convention ? a raucous and paranoid gathering of loners given to black T-shirts and wild pranks ? the veterans had a message for the younger, up-and-coming hackers: go straight.”

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/. Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org.
Cox writes, “So far so good, but still treat this one with care. We now use the
official VIA workaround for the southbridge bugs. That should fix
the ES137x/SB PCI problems on VIA and some other stuff without
breaking the IDE corruption fix. The i810 security hole is now patched too.”

2.4.6-ac4
o Update VIA southbridge bug fix to VIA provided
workaround. (me)
| Except we apply it even when no sblive is present
o Fix up includes to use slab.h (Chris Wedgewood)
o Switch es1371 internal amp to a table (Frank Aune, me)
o Merge improve zone balancing (Marcelo Tosatti)
| Should fix a lot of high zone balancing problems
o Update to megaraid 1.17a (Atul Mukker)
o Add large file support to user mode Linux (Lennert Buytenhek)
o Add management console to user mode Linux (Lennert Buytenhek)
o IDE updates (Andre Hedrick)
o Updated SBNI drivers (Yaroslav Polyakov, Denis I.Timofeev)
o Fix the i810 ‘read any kernel memory’ bug (me)

2.4.6-ac3
o Save registers on pnpbios calls (me)
o Avoid re-entrancy on PnPBIOs calls (me)
o Catch oopsing in PnPBIOS and print better
diagnostics (ie rant about bios vendor)
(me)
o Fix CONFIG_ARM entry (me)
o Fix reference to major in mnd_pinnacle (me)
o Merge Linus 2.4.7pre6
o Fix dmi to return null string for string 0 (Matt Domsch)
o Don’t probe MCA serial space on non MCA x86 (me)
| Fixes the Debian combo MCA/PCI kernel problems
o Turbo pam isdn fix (Stelian Pop)
o Add ISAPnP PCMCIA adapter support (Andrey Panin)
o Fix NO_FSBR and ZERO_PACKET user urbs (Thomas Sailer)
o Fix types used in sk98 for save/restore flags (Jes Sorensen)
o Update Configure.help (Fumiaki OHATA)
o Fix scheduler/yield bug (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Ext2fs clean up of high/acl usage (Andreas Dilger)
o Fix chattr on ext2 directories (Andreas Dilger)
o Correct quota read/write check (Andreas Dilger)
o Fix i810_tco oops (Randy Dunlop)
o Update bootflag handler (Randy Dunlop)
o Fix errata/erratum comment errors (David Woodhouse)
o Further starfire fixes (Ion Badulescu)
o Fix FAT overflow due to signed i_pos (OGAWA Hirofumi)
o Fix reiserfs tree balance/filldir race (Chris Mason)
o USB check for vendor types in devio (Dan Streetman)
o Clean up the dynamic aic7xxx files in make clean(Tim Hockin)
o Fix pci ordering in headers (Tim Hockin)
o Add DMI detection for funny purple laptops (Stelian Pop)
o Bluetooth driver update (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Fix pnpbios help width (Randy Dunlop)
o Edgeport driver update (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Fix softirq pending breakage in UML (Jeff Dike)
o Add ID for CPIA2 cameras (Steve Miller)
o dmi printk fix (Robert Dunlop)
o USB storage wrong ID for SDDR-09 (Phil Stracchino)
o Add configure.help for VAIO LCD mode (Stelian Pop)
o Add larger readahead to the ataraid (Arjan van de Ven)
o Further ISAPnP idents for SB variants (Bill Nottingham)
o Minixfs updates (Al Viro)
o Frank Denis has moved email (Frank Denis)
o Support triple indirect shmem for S/390x (Christoph Rohland)
o shmem race fix (Christoph Rohland)
o Fix hole in binfmt_elf loader (Sebastian ,
Solar Designer)
o Merge farsync synchronous driver (Bob Dunlop)
o 8139too locking fix (Masaru Kawashima)
o Update do_wp_page documentation (Hugh Dickins)

o Fix zr36120 range check (me)
| This batch is all from the Stanford checker
o Fix stradis range check (me)
o Fix i2c maths overrun security check (me)
o Fix bttv range check (me)
o Fix zr36067 range check (me)
o Limit unique length to 1024 in drm (me)
o Bound nframes on cd-rom reading (me)
o Add missing range check on ov511 (me)
o Fix range checks in mga (me)
| I’ve no idea if I’ve broken the matrox driver in doing so
| but right now I don’t actually care. XFree need to fix it right
o Ditto for radeon (me)
o Ditto for r128 (me)
o Ditto for matrox pci (me)
o And generic drm_addbufs (me)
o Fix missing
o Fix wrong kfree order in ali-ircc (me)
o Fix use of freed object in CDCEther (me)
o Fix double free of urb in usbnet (me)
o Fix wrong free in usb_new_device (me)

* Note that the i810 drm bug reported by the checker looks exploitable.
It
needs someone from XFree86 with i810 docs to fix this. In the mean time
people should probably disable the i810 drm support if its an issue.

use Perl; “Simon Cozens has released the first tutorial on Perl 5 internals. This is the tutorial he’ll be giving at The Perl Conference.”

Slashdot discusses standarization of Linux Palmtops, around an article discussing a few real-life applications of ultraportable Linux devices.