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Red Hat Launches New Channels to Support Education. Red Hat has announced the launch of two new educational channels on Red Hat Network, the Educational Channel, and the K-12 Linux Terminal Server Project Channel.

Red Hat Launches Red Hat Linux Education Program. Red Hat, Inc. announced its K-12 Red Hat Linux Pilot Program. Schools participating in the initiative will be provided with Red Hat software and services at no cost. Red Hat will assess the current and future computing needs of each school and then install the appropriate open source software and programs. Each school is providing its own hardware and has agreed to meet the minimum requirements set by Red Hat.

EUCD status Wiki established. The European Union Copyright Directive is Europe's attempt to inflict the joys of the DMCA upon itself. Needless to say, a few people are beginning to be a little concerned about this possibility. In an attempt to begin coordinating an anti-EUCD response, the Association Electronique Libre has put up a Wiki page for the tracking EUCD implementation legislation in each of the EU member countries. Those who are tracking EUCD are encouraged to help update the information there and keep it current. (See also: this page on the FSF Europe site on why the EUCD is a problem).

FreeGIS CD 1.2.0 released. The Intevation GmbH has released FreeGIS-CD 1.2.0 for GNU/Linux-Systems.

Wing IDE for Python version 1.1.4. Version 1.1.4 of the commercial Wing IDE for Python has been released.

HP to help port openMosix to the IA-64. The openMosix project has announced that HP will help support a port of the openMosix clustering platform to the IA-64 processor.

The New HP is Ready. Here's a press release discussing HP's plans following its merger with Compaq Computer Corp. There are some Linux servers in HP's future.

Caldera Global Services Honored Again. Caldera International, Inc. announced that Caldera TEAM Support for Linux won Network Computing's Annual Well-Connected Award for Linux Support Service and was named the overall category winner in Network Computing's Annual Well-Connected Service Providers and Outsourcing Award Category.

New wireless networks book from O'Reilly. O'Reilly has announced the release of 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide by Matthew S. Gast. "Since network monitoring is essential to any serious network administrator, and commercial packet sniffers for wireless applications are scarce and expensive, the book shows how to create a wireless packet sniffer from a Linux system and open source software."

Linux Buyer's Guide Launches. SSC Publications, publisher of the monthly magazine Linux Journal, announced the launch of the on-line Linux Buyer's Guide.

Linux Stock Index for May 03 to May 08, 2002.
LSI at closing on May 03, 2002 ... 23.20
LSI at closing on May 08, 2002 ... 25.13

The high for the week was 25.13
The low for the week was 19.65

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