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Red Hat will this year introduce a new high-end enterprise qualification, even though some observers question whether such certificates are the best way to demonstrate open-source skills.

Skype -- which bills itself as the Global P2P Telephony Company -- is now offering a Linux version of its beta Internet telephone software and service. Like the Windows version which debuted ten months ago, the Linux version is free: at least for the moment. You can download and start using the beta immediately. If you do, you'll be surprised at how good it sounds.

Mono 1.0 is an open source development platform based on the .NET framework that allows software developers to efficiently build Linux and cross-platform applications. Mono includes a C# compiler, a .NET-compatible runtime and two stacks of APIs.

Linuxlookup.com staff member Rich reviews Cedega (WineX 4.0), giving it a 20/20 Editors Choice Award. "The release of Transgaming's newest version of WineX, renamed Cedega, was met with considerable enthusiasm and interest in the Linux community last week. So much so that their server was inaccessible the day of release. Cedega is claimed to be much improved, offering the ability to play recent games released for Windows "seamlessly and transparently" under Linux. They provided me with a copy, and I was curious to see if it lived up to the hype."

Hewlett Packard has unveiled a file sharing product based on a Linux clustering technology known as Lustre, which it claims can deliver up to 100 times more

Until Microsoft proves it can fix IE's security bugs, you're better off using one of a few good alternatives as much as possible In late June, network security experts saw one of their worst fears realized. Attackers exploited a pair of known but unpatched flaws in Microsoft's Web server software and Internet Explorer browser to compromise seemingly safe Web sites. People who browsed there on Windows computers got infected with malicious code without downloading anything. I've been growing increasingly concerned about IE's endless security problems, and this episode has convinced me that the program is simply too dangerous for routine use.

Scott McNealy, chairman and chief executive of Sun Microsystems, has extended an open invitation to Microsoft and Red Hat to join the Java Community Process (JCP). Speaking at the 2004 JavaOne conference in San Francisco he also stressed that Sun, which has struggled financially lately, is not going away.

Apple, Macromedia, Opera and Sun Microsystems join in push to modernize plugins and create a richer web experience

Ordained minister Don Parris has plenty of experience spreading the good word -- about Linux. Parris is planting a new church in Charlotte, N.C., the Matheteuo Christian Fellowship. Matheteuo translates to "make disciples," and Parris has extended this directive to include Linux disciples. His PDF book, Penguin in the Pew has been downloaded more than 1,000 times.

Whether, why and how religious groups should migrate to Linux.

Welcome to this year's 25th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. We have to apologise for not being able to send out an issue last week and only a short one today, but LinuxTag organisation kept Joey too busy with other stuff.

Since Sourceforge.net introduced the premium tech support not much seems to have been changed for non-premium support but just read on. Friday 25th I requested a simple movement of a CVS directory from project wxGuide...

Linux software vendor Red Hat is offering a free half-day training seminar to its Australian resellers.

Linux is not yet the dominant server OS in terms of units deployed or units shipped. Microsoft still has the lion's share of the market by all reasonable estimations. It is true that Linux market share figures are likely to be inaccurate because there is no easy way to count new Linux servers. The major problem is that it is possible to estimate those servers that come with Linux loaded, but not possible to count servers that were running something else (Windows or SCO UNIX or whatever) that were repurposed.

The Web server applicance is raking in new users since Sun open-sourced its code, even though the company has discontinued the line.

This week's Gentoo Weekly Newsletter brings news of the first installation of Gentoo Linux on a quadruple Opteron machine, as well as coverage of Gentoo's presence at the LinuxTag exhibition in Karlsruhe, Germany. We also bring a new feature, Project Updates, where we bring updates on the various projects within Gentoo - this week you'll find out what's new in the infrastructure, security, and release engineering projects. Don't miss the profile of Portage developer Marius Mauch, the ample community coverage, or the tip on finding recent files using ls either. Enjoy!

AIB is to move 7,500 desktop users in its branch network to Sun's Java Desktop, a move that bodes well for open source software.

The CE Linux Forum (CELF) today announced that it has released its first CELF Specification and Reference Implementation. This release represents another step toward optimizing Linux for use in consumer electronic (CE) products, consistent with the goals and vision of the CELF organization. The specification and implementation can be freely downloaded from the CELF website at http://www.celinuxforum.org.

A major security hole discovered in Microsoft's Internet Explorer last week has become a golden marketing opportunity for alternative browsers such as Mozilla and Opera that are unaffected by the flaw.