I found out they only offer one Linux course in their whole program. Then we got talking back-end and she mentioned that they're moving off of Linux for computers/servers the college runs on.
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Education IT chiefs debate open source
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The concept of open source software seems so firmly entrenched in higher education that it comes as almost a shock to realize there's actually a debate over it.
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GNUveau Networks builds solar-powered Linux computer networks for remote villages (video)
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Scott Johnson of GNUveau Networks has developed a solar-powered Internet 'hub' system (running Ubuntu GNU/Linux) that he builds to order in his Daytona Beach, Florida, home.
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Google, Partners Plan Open Source Blitz In Australia
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Google is working with three major IT consulting firms to launch an open source software blitz in Australia
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Fl_TeacherTool: Award-winning software with an uncertain future
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Last month, when the National Center for Open Source and Education announced this year's FOSS and K-12 Education Awards, three of the five awards were given for software designed for the Linux Terminal Service Project (LTSP).
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Give your old PowerPC Mac a new lease of life with Ubuntu Linux
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Apple's MacOS X platform has left a lot of Macs with PowerPC G3, G4 and G5 chips out in the cold. However, Linux isn't just for the Intel set; here’s how Ubuntu to can bring new life to your old Mac too.
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Yahoo! Opens Up to Developers
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Today Yahoo! officially introduced their "open strategy" platform, Y!OS. The Yahoo! Open Strategy platform consists of three development components, the Yahoo! Application Platform, the Yahoo! Social Platform, and the Yahoo! Query Language.
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Blackboard Partners With Iowa State University To Develop Moodle Integration
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Balckboard Inc, a leading provider of educational enterprise technology, announced today that it has partnered with Iowa State University to develop software that will allow institutions to connect their Blackboard(R) learning environment with the open source Moodle course management system.
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Netbooks: The Linux Trojan Horse
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For better or worse, Linux has always had a reputation as being the geeks' OS - endlessly flexible if you're on one side of the divide, endlessly complicated on the other.
With netbooks, this isn't the case.
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Innovation Week in Africa – Young business innovators are making money with Open Source.
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All through last week, I spent my time in Ghana at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Center for Excellence in ICT ( AITI-KACE ) in Accra.
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Open source software proves affordable, flexible for NIH, DoD
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Ten years ago, engineers at the National Institutes of Health decided to bundle together a bunch of regular computers in order to create a supercomputing capability.
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Open source identity: Free Telephony Project founder David Rowe
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Move over proprietary telephony systems. Australian engineer David Rowe started the Free Telephony Project three years ago to build an affordable IP-PABX system out of free hardware and software.
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Linux Takes on a Wide Array of Computing Environments and Comes out on Top
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By combining Japanese technology with American ingenuity, the "Will Linux Work?" contest showcased the flexibility and incredible range of possibilities for Linux to do amazing things in a diverse range of environments.
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Amazing figures on the open source adoption in Finland
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I attended Openmind last week, an interesting conference organized by the Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions (COSS) to bring together open source professionals, community members and academics in Finland.
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Government Open Source Software Collaboratives debated at GOSCON
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On October 22, government and private industry experts will debate the issues and opportunities presented by collaborative software development models at the Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) Portland, Oregon.
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