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Learning Tree International has announced the addition of a new Linux course to its IT curriculum. Entitled "Linux: A Comprehensive Hands-On Introduction," the four-day course offers participants the opportunity to gain experience with Linux through intensive exercises under the guidance of an expert instructor.

Just because Microsoft refuses to support ODF (Open Document Format) never meant that someone wouldn't write a plug-in to enable Microsoft Office users to read and write ODF documents. Well, it's happened.

Opinion: Can you have open-source goodness and proprietary programs in one Linux distribution? Linspire says yes, but Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols and others aren't so sure.(DesktopLinux)

Join us on May 5th, 2006 for a Cinco De Mayo celebration of scalable PHP as we are joined by Mike Morgan of Mozilla. Mike has had extensive experience using the LAMP application stack for Mozilla on projects such as Bugzilla and the Mozilla Extensions site. Mike will share with us his experiences and advise on good architecture decisions, why PHP is used for performance and where how to determine what packages and extensions you should be using in your application.

Microsoft's new albino jumbo

Stob Microsoft has been firing off some big guns in support of something called 'C++/CLI'.

[For those who might be keeping an eye on the .Net platform - dcparris]

Flight 7, the latest alpha of Dapper Drake, is now available. These releases are tested to be reasonably free of showstopper bugs, but are still not release quality, so do not use these on your production systems. You can download the Flight 7 CD here:

Digital signatures were designed to allow secure, confidential communication between two parties. As Wikipedia describes it: 'A user may digitally sign messages using his private key, and another user can check that signature (using the public key contained in that user's certificate issued by a certificate authority). This enables two (or more) communicating parties to establish confidentiality, message integrity and user authentication without having to exchange any secret information in advance.'

Say what you will about Windows' lack of openness or its seemingly never-ending software flaws, but if you double-click on an installer and the version of Windows you're using is reasonably up-to-date, your software will install. This is even truer on Mac OS X, where installing software often involves nothing more than dragging a single icon from the install disk to your applications folder.

Center for Responsible Nanotechnology announces new essays from leading thinkers

Network World's recently-released NW200 - which lists the top 200 vendors in the network industry, by revenue - was again fairly light on Linux companies this year. This is probably what you get for selling a product that can be downloaded for free; however, companies that use Linux as a major part of their business strategy did quite well.

Just wanted to let folks know that the summary of the most recent Fedora Project Board meeting is online.

The open-source Mozilla project is to release an update to its Firefox browser that will fix a publicly disclosed security issue in the software. News of the update came as developers also confirmed that they were dropping a highly anticipated bookmarking feature, called Places, from the next major Firefox release, due later this year.

JBoss, Professional Open Source company, and Patni Computer Systems , a global IT services provider, announced a global partnership to offer application development and migration services to enterprises deploying solutions on the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS). As a global JBoss-certified systems integrator, Patni will be fully equipped to provide the latest services and technologies based on the JEMS platform.

We've been working with Fernando Lopez-Lezcano of Planet CCRMA, the popular Fedora-based music distribution, to see about bringing Planet CCRMA under the Extras umbrella. So feel free to join the conversation:

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Coverity fixes continue to roll in. amaroK gets enhanced support for VFAT (ie. Generic Audio) devices. New themes for KTuberling. Preliminary support for both next-generation disc formats (Blu-ray and HD-DVD) in K3B. KDE 4 changes: More apps ported to D-BUS. JuK gets the ball rolling on porting to Phonon.

A peek at one of Google's datacenters reveals a look at Google Health, and if you try it with Internet Explorer 7 beta 2, Google suggests changing your search engine choice too.

XOsoft will release the next version of its WANSync data synchronisation and replication software with added support for Linux, 64-bit environments and the BlackBerry mobile device.

Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today announced that it has deepened its global relationship with JBoss, Inc., the professional open source company, as a JBoss Authorized Service Provider (JASP) and JBoss Authorized Training Partner (JATP) for all of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS) on a global level.

Book publisher In Pictures announced this week that it has added new how-to books on desktop Linux (Linspire Five-O), and the four OpenOffice.org programs (Base, Calc, Impress, Writer) to its catalog. The books are all designed for new and relatively new users.

While Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touted the US arrival of his company's Google AdWords killer, potential customers who use the Firefox browser found their attempts to join AdCenter were being killed by a lack of cross-browser compatibility.