LPI Community Corner
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Certifiable: Why Get a Vendor/Distribution Neutral Linux Certification?
on January 24, 2011In this second in his series of online videos, Ross Brunson of LPICPrep describes the value of a vendor and distribution neutral Linux certification.
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To Russia With Love
on January 10, 2011Comrade! Let me tell you about Linux! A few days ago the Russian government announced that they were going to transition the government to using Free Software by 2015, starting as early as mid-2011. In reality, this transition started much earlier. It was in 1997 that I first went to Moscow and...
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LPI 101 screencast from PaulPaulito.com
on January 10, 2011LPI is pleased to introduce another great resource for LPI exam preparation, screencasts from PaulPaulito.com. Some examples are already available on YouTube. Included below is a sample of their online LPI exam preparation screencasts T.B.A. soon. Over the coming weeks we will share samples of...
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Top 10 in 2010: A Poll
on January 10, 2011LPI had a number of stories in 2010. We invite you to help us in picking the “Top Story” of 2010. Included in a survey on the right column of this blog page is our “top ten” from the last year: those that attracted the most attention, were most frequently published, commented on, or generated...
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There but for fortune go you or go I
on December 16, 2010Earlier this month an old acquaintance of mine, Hal Miller, wrote an open letter to SAGE, an organization that is part of USENIX and which specializes in systems administration. You can read his letter here. I can vouch for the fact that when Hal said he was “at the top of his field”, he was there...
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LPICPrep: "Why Get a Certification"
on December 16, 2010LPI Community Corner is pleased to share the video "Certifiable: Why Get a Certification" by Ross Brunson from his LPIC Prep Channel. Ross has been training IT professionals to prepare for LPI exams for many years and is a long time supporter. In this video he offers his views on the value of IT...
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Local business, Local jobs
on December 2, 2010The press has been alive the past several days with news of the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, where the police have been going in and rounding up drug dealers. From the amount of press and police actions, some people outside of Brazil must think that all of the people in the favela are thieves or...
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Open Source Lights Up Darkest Africa
on November 4, 2010Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria....countries in Africa that some people have to use an atlas (or at least Google Maps) to locate. While low cost computers, networking hardware and software are helping these countries develop the computer infrastructure they need those are only part of the answer. To...
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LPI and My First International Proctoring "Job"
on October 5, 2010One of the contributions that I have lent to LPI, and of which I am very proud, is the constant drum beat about making LPI multinational. From the very beginning I remember talking about the issues in various countries around the world in terms of language, costs of certification and ease of...
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The Beginning
on September 23, 2010It was early 1998, and the commercial side of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) was beginning to flourish. Enthusiasts and researchers had embraced FOSS some time before, but while some companies were using FOSS, and some companies were making money from FOSS, most companies were still going...