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The Linux Professional Institute today announced its official accreditation and endorsement by The National Infocomm Competency Centre (NICC) of Singapore.

At least one version of Java code, Java 2 Standard Edition, may soon be set free of Sun Microsystems' notoriously complicated licensing. While Sun is apparently OK with it, some of its large, license-paying-through-the-nose customers won't be.

I'm sure quite a few of you had a chuckle reading last week's newsletter outlining the attempts by Nick Farrell of the U.K.'s The Inquirer to install SuSE Linux 9.3. One of the bigger guffaws came from Novell's Doug Clower, who is a global solutions director (formerly a global solutions manager - I've no idea what that means translated from marketing-speak, though).

In this issue of Industry Insider, Con Zymaris, our guest columnist from Open Source Industry Australia, describes the major barriers for Linux in the education system.

Sun Microsystems on Monday will formally announce an upgrade to the open-source NetBeans development platform and remains undaunted by the rival Eclipse offering.

I read a fascinating article in The Inquirer (not the one from Florida, the one from the U.K.) last week. In it, IT gadfly Nick Farrell documents his attempts to install SuSE Linux 9.3 on his home computer (see editorial links below). You'll appreciate it, because it will reflect the opinion of many of your users should you install the full bore of Novell Linux Desktop on their machines.

In an effort to raise awareness of Linux and other Open Source within government, corporate, and private sectors, the Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corp. has created a live, interactive online Linux demonstration. Thanks to unexpectedly high popularity among fellow Germans, the group has now translated the demo into English.

Finding it difficult to keep track of all your usernames and passwords on Web sites, forums, and portals? Don't start writing them down on scrap paper -- get help from a password manager application. I found three open source candidates for this task: Password Gorilla, KeePass Password Safe, and Oubliette.

I chose VectorLinux as my workstation operating system because I love Slackware, on which Vector is based. Vector is what I would like Slackware to be.

Combining new and old technologies, Integrated Facility for Linux lets customers run the open-source operating system on an IBM mainframe.

I'm sure quite a few of you had a chuckle reading last week's newsletter outlining the attempts by Nick Farrell of the U.K.'s The Inquirer to install SuSE Linux 9.3. One of the bigger guffaws came from Novell's Doug Clower, who is a global solutions director (formerly a global solutions manager - I've no idea what that means translated from marketing-speak, though).

Still a strong case for Microsoft in schools and local government...Setting aside for a moment the debate going on in enterprises over whether to use Microsoft or open source alternatives, this week has seen much noise over two other battlegrounds: schools and local government.

Witty promotional videos featuring people's extreme reaction to discovering Firefox are spreading fast online

New best buddies IBM and Red Hat are working together to accelerate the adoption of Linux. They have extended their relationship with the goal of steering more customers towards the take-up of Linux on the IBM E-server Z-series mainframe.

Company Chairman Michael Dell's major investment in Red Hat shows the strength of the Linux server and desktop markets, and may imply future moves for the computer company.

Sun delays release of two major features the company has trumpeted as reasons to try its new Solaris operating system.

Open source CRM, while starting to capture some headlines and industry attention, still has a tough road ahead in capturing market share, according to analysts.

Desktop Linux company Linspire has a new CEO after its founder and former CEO Michael Robertson stepped up to the role of chairman of the privately held company.

Usability has always been a controversial aspect of free software development, but one that is becoming increasingly important along with the uptake of GNU/Linux distributions in businesses and homes. Developers' discussions about usability are often marked by shrill accusations and defensive responses. Implementing usability suggestions can mean giving up months of feature-building. But according to a few developers and usability experts working on KDE, bringing usability experts into the hackers' work processes can be a big help.

Korean Contributor to Asianux - Linux Distribution Jointly Developed by Organizations in Japan, China and Korea - to Support OSDL Carrier Grade Linux