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Competition Fosters Next Generation Of Linux Talent

Posted by michael on from the script-kiddies dept.

gollum123 writes "Yahoo reports that about 3,000 students from 75 countries registered for the 2004 IBM Linux Scholar Challenge before registration closed Oct. 31, the largest turnout in the competition's history. This year's winners will be revealed in January at LinuxWorld in Boston. Each entry consists of a 1,200-word essay that can describe the solution to one of 29 Linux-related challenges IBM poses as part of the competition. Entrants, who must be enrolled full time at an accredited university, aren't limited to these challenges and can suggest and solve their own problems. The IBM-provided challenges include asking entrants to identify deficiencies in Linux and propose solutions, describe how to build a high-availability application that would provide failover capability across multiple IBM servers, and improve boot time on a Linux-based IBM ThinkPad."

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  1. Re:Requirements are lame by MBCook · · Score: 5, Informative
    It's a scollarship challenge.

    If you don't go to school, you don't need a scollarship.

    If you want to complain that it shouldn't be a scollarship challenge, that's one thing. But don't complain about a scollarship challenge requiring people to be students.

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  2. Re:Requirements are lame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    It's for a scholarship, you dolt.

    A. College. Scholarship.

  3. Sample Problems by MBCook · · Score: 4, Informative
    After a little searching, I found a list of 29 possible challenges for the students to solve. It's a PDF: Linux Challenge Options.

    Second, I can't wait to see the results of this. Should be interesting to see how some of these are solved, and what other interesting challenges people come up with to try to solve.

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    1. Re:Sample Problems by LordNimon · · Score: 5, Informative

      Don't get too excited about that. I've worked at IBM for a number of years. First, everyone who uses WordPro hates it. Second, the only people who use it don't depend on interoperability with outside groups. Third, WordPro is being phased out for MS Word across the entire company, it's just taking a lot longer than it should.

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  4. Re:Patent question by Nailer · · Score: 3, Informative

    I read recently, I think on LWN, that IBM now earn more revenue from Linux than they do from their IP licensing (and yes, they make huge revenue from IP licensing).

    I can't be bothered looking it up. You do it.