"About 3,000 students from 75 countries registered for the 2004 IBM Linux (news - web sites) 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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I tried to find a list of these 29 questions, but failed
Could you please provide a link to this list if you have?

Here's a link to the 2004 list (PDF file):
http://www.developer.ibm.com/univers...ptions2004.pdf

And here's a link to the challenge info on IBM's site:
http://www.developer.ibm.com/univers...ontests/linux/

sigh, link not found?

The links are good as of today, 11:00 AM Pacific -- J.W.