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Linux Online Certification

Linux/Unix System Administration Certificate Series — This course series targets both beginning and intermediate Linux/Unix users who want to acquire advanced system administration skills, and to back those skills up with a Certificate from the University of Illinois Office of Continuing Education.

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Linux Books

Many of our books are available as Ebook Bundles — your bookshelf on your devices! And don't forget, you can Buy 2 books, get the 3rd FREE! Use discount code: OPC10 See details.

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Linux Experts

Tyler Mitchell is the author of Web Mapping Illustrated - a book focused on teaching how to use popular Open Source Geospatial Toolkits. He works as the Executive Director of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, aka OSGeo.

Ted Wallingford is lead consultant and co-founder of Best Technology Strategy LLC, and is the author of O'Reilly Media's Switching to VoIP and VoIP Hacks.

Steven Pritchard is a Linux guy and a hardware geek who spends a disturbing amount of time working on Fedora's Perl packages (plus a few other things), occasionally remembers to update the Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO, and sort of works a day job.

Stephen Addison Schneiter is currently the Certification Specialist with Certification Partners, LLC, and formerly was a tenured faculty member at the Tennessee Technology Center.

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Live, Online Tutorials

Direct from OSCON

Now for the first time, we are streaming tutorials live from OSCON. If you can't make the trip to Portland next week, you can still take part in selected tutorials delivered directly to your computer. OSCON tutorials are led by leaders and innovators in their fields. When you attend virtually, you'll take part via a live video feed of the tutorial as it is happening. You'll have the opportunity to interact virtually, sharing comments and asking questions of the presenter.

Register now for any or all of the 3-hour tutorials we're streaming live.

Monday, July 19 Introduction to Django 8:30am PDT, $149 The Productive Programmer 1:30pm PDT, $149

Tuesday, July 20 Scalable Internet Architectures 8:30am PDT, $149 Hands-on Cassandra 1:30pm PDT, $149

Conferences

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If you only come to one technical conference this year, make sure it's OSCON. In a time of rapid change, open source is key to the evolving computing landscape. Happening July 19 – 23 in Portland, OR. » Register Now

Linux Answers

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Linux News & Commentary

Four short links: 28 July 2010

By Nat Torkington
July 28, 2010

The end of the road for the Nexus One (LWN) -- The pessimistic among us can be forgiven for concluding that the battle for open handsets is being lost. The carriers determine which devices will be successful in the market, and they have absolutely no interest in openness. Customers are irresistibly drawn to heavily advertised, shiny devices with low...

Red Hat Overhauls the Enterprise Software Stack

By Andy Oram
June 24, 2010

Red Hat is openly badgering large, IT-driven organizations to move away from comfortable patterns and to adopt what they believe to be the best virtualization platform, the best cloud API, the best data storage mechanism, and so on.

Mandriva Saved By New Investors

By Caitlyn Martin
June 22, 2010

After weeks of concern about the "catastrophic state of it's finances" and an indefiniete delay in the release of version 2010.1, the French website LeMagIT is reporting that Mandriva has been saved by new investors.

Running 64-bit Linux? No Flash For You!

By Caitlyn Martin
June 18, 2010

Adobe has, at least temporarily, ended support for Flash Player on 64-bit Linux. No updated version is available. Adobe's message for 64-bit Linux users, at least for now, is "No Flash for you!"

Avoiding Linux Installation Problems on the HP Mini 110 and Mini 210 Netbooks

By Caitlyn Martin
June 13, 2010

I first ran into what turns out to be a recurring problem when I installed Pardus 2009 last fall. The installer would lock up... Since then I have run into an almost identical problem in openSUSE11.2, Slackware 13.1 and SalixOS 13.1... It appears that the wireless chipset as implemented in these netbooks conflicts with the ssb module, causing the system to freeze.

I'm a BSD

By Rick Jelliffe
June 11, 2010

This week I am taking FreeBSD 8.0 for a spin. So far, I like it enough that it will probably be my normal desktop environment. It seems to have the right stuff: my PC seems markedly faster. FreeBSD's slogan is...

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Linux Webcast

When Times Get Tough, the Tough Get Tuning: Improve the Performance of Your Linux Systems

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