Beginning with the November 2000 classes in Linux Systems Administration,
LearnLinux will give the LPI (Linux Professional Institute) Certification exam
at the conclusion of the five day SysAdmin Level I and Level II classes. The press release is at Linux PR.

A columnist at SecurityPortal says: “In my time as a
Security Administrator for a Solaris shop,
I had to give the occasional briefing to
my boss: We’re vulnerable. A new
security hole has just been discovered
and every major Unix/Linux is vulnerable,
from Solaris to Irix to Red Hat Linux.
After briefing my boss on our risk and my
plans to do something about such, he asks me the same question: ‘Can you find
an exploit?’ Rather often, I’ve had to answer, ‘nope.’ ”

From a column at KDE Dot News: “Ideally,
even though OpenOffice is technically a competitor to KOffice (Sun
apparently denies this) and despite the naysayers, OpenOffice will be of
sizable benefit to KDE.”

LinuxIT has announced the launch of an anti-virus solution for all mail
servers running Linux. The solution includes the installation and configuration
of established anti-virus technologies within a client’s specific email
environment, providing extensive email scanning and virus protection
particularly where vulnerable Microsoft clients are on the network. The press release is at Linux PR.

From eWeek: “While IBM hopes to dazzle dot-com customers with its newly renamed servers such as the one introduced today as ‘the most power commercial server in history’ some Big Blue faithful are disgruntled by what they see as a misguided marketing move.”

The Register reports that Linus Torvalds has made a Top 300 power list for the UK (he came in at number 39). AOL’s Steve Case, believe it or not, was the fourth most powerful person in the UK, according to the list.

From Fairfax IT: “Analysts from Boston’s Yankee Group have pointed to game playing and often ‘illegal’ MP3 music swapping as the key drivers behind broadband over the next few years.”

The Associated Press reports that Four Republicans are promoting legislation that would
force schools and libraries to use Internet filtering software or lose federal
dollars intended to help buy Web access.

More than 80 percent of Americans doubt the U.S. government’s ability to maintain
computer security and privacy, according to a poll released
Monday as reported by Reuters. Eighty-one percent of Americans were either “very concerned” or “somewhat concerned” that government-held data about them may be
misused some day, according to the survey conducted for the
Information Technology Association of America, a
trade group. Another 72 percent said they would not feel
safe signing a contract over the Internet using a “secure
digital signature.”

Attachmate Corporation has announced the release of Attachmate e-Vantage Host Access Server 2.3, the latest version of Attachmate’s Web-based host access management solution. Attachmate e-Vantage Host Access Server 2.3 introduces management console support on IBM’s OS/390 mainframe and AS/400 host platforms, in addition to server platform support on Sun Solaris HP/UX, AIX, and LINUX operating systems. It is an easy-to-deploy, secure solution that enables enterprises to extend access to existing host applications to any Web browser. — Submitted by BHZ