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SA gets Linux academy

Linux Holdings have launched South Africa's first full time Linux training academy. Mixing theory with practical, students will begin with a four-month curriculum, training them up to write the Linux Professional Institute level one exam. After that they will work for an open source company for six months. More on the story from Tectonic here.

New Firefox version
speaks Afrikaans

The newest version of Mozilla Firefox web browser has been translated into the South African Afrikaans language, one of 11 official South African languages. The Afrikaans translation is the work of the volunteer community at the non-profit Translate.org.za, which translates FOSS programs into South Africa's many languages. This is the first official release of Afrikaans translations in the Firefox 2.0 series. More on the story from Tectonic here.

Xerox puts on a Red Hat

Document specialist Xerox has switched its electronic resource planning (ERP) systems to Oracle on Red Hat Linux running on Dell Power Edge servers. More on the story from Tectonic here.

Open Tuesday debuts in South Africa

South Africa's first Open Tuesday event was held recently at the Holiday Inn in Sandton. This was the first of what should become an important monthly event on the calendar of both the local open source community and those on the periphery who have an interest in open source development. More on the story from Tectonic here.

In Africa? Write about Free Sofware/Open Source Software?

OSR invites writers in Africa to submit stories about free software/open source software news and developments for publication. Contact us here.