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Local business and Education provider work together to bring Open Source to the
classroom.
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| The students at Lincoln College have been breaking the mould and testing
| Linux Operating Systems as part of their IT courses. Local IT support
| company, ForLinux Ltd, has been working with the college over the last 6
| months to support and aid the learning of Lincoln College students and to
| open their minds to the potential of alternative operating systems. ForLinux
| were initially approached at the start of the year by Barry Smith, a
| Curriculum Tutor from Lincoln College, and asked to give a presentation to
| students on Open Source operating systems and the relationship has grown from
| there.
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http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/11549.html
Young programmers win big [with Sugar (Free software)]
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| Celine and Charlene trumped most of the older competitors handily in the
| contest organised by the Information Technology Standards Committee and
| supported by the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA)
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http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_405695.html
Recent:
Red Hat educates profs
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| Red Hat is sowing the seeds of open source software development among college
| professors.
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| This week a fourth-floor meeting room at the company's Centennial Campus
| headquarters in Raleigh is the site of a boot camp for faculty from a
| half-dozen universities, including N.C. Central and Elon. It's a prototype
| for a program whose ultimate goal is to immerse computer science students in
| real-world open-source development projects.
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| [...]
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| Red Hat, which is poised to join the Standard & Poor's 500 index after the
| market closes today, makes its money by bundling Linux with various levels of
| support services.
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http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1619353.html
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