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A Linux Moment: What Does It Offer the Everyday Computer User?
22 de enero de 2025 - By Andrew Oram
An earlier article explained what Linux is and what makes it special. It can help you appreciate one of its big advantages: When you use Linux, no one controls which applications you install or cuts off service if you decide not to upgrade to some new version.
Linux also has [...]
[LPIC:202] Practical LDAP Server Construction (1) – Environment Construction + Adding and Managing Users
18 de octubre de 2023
On Saturday, November 4, 2023, at 13:00, LPI Japan Chapter will hold a webinar "[LPIC:202] Practical LDAP Server Construction (1) - Environment Construction + Adding and Managing Users".
In this webinar, Hiroyuki Nagashima will explain in detail.
In September, November, and December, he will give three lectures on LDAP servers, which [...]
Commands and Options that Beginning Users Often Mistake
5 de octubre de 2023
On Sunday, October 15, 2023, at 1:00 p.m., LPI Japan Chapter will hold a webinar, "Commands and Options that Beginning Users Often Mistake".
In this webinar, Ms. Akiko Hashimoto will explain in detail.
In this webinar, Ms. Akiko Hashimoto will cover commands and options that are confusing to those who have [...]
Linux Professional Institute (LPI) supports the Croatian Linux Users’ Conference, offers its attendees a 10% discount on ticket
May 11-12 2023
The Linux Professional Institute is proud to support the Croatian Linux Users' Conference, also known as the Days of Open Computer Systems, a premier event that brings together leading IT companies and professionals from the region and beyond for 29 years running.
This year's conference will take place [...]
Blame the Tool or Blame the Tool User
18 de noviembre de 2019 - By Marcel Gagné
A long time ago and far away, a Captain in the British Army retired from service and moved to an estate near Ballinrobe in Ireland. His name was Charles and he moved into Lough Mask House, a property owned by a wealthy landowner by the name of Lord Erne [...]
Why Do Programming Languages Rise and Fall? Part 2
6 de agosto de 2026 - By Andrew Oram
The first article in this two-part series looked at programming languages with long tenures. In this section we'll examine a few cases of languages that didn't fare so well—despite high hopes for them.
False Starts
Some languages make a big splash but fail to really catch on. The most salient example [...]
Konstantinos Giannakakis: From Curiosity to Mastery
4 de agosto de 2026 - By Konstantinos Giannakakis
Hi, I am Konstantinos Giannakakis and the following is my journey to IT and FOSS. When I first enrolled in university, computer science was neither my field of study nor a part of my career plans. I pursued a degree irrelevant to IT, but soon realized that computers were [...]
Linux: In the Cloud and on Servers, the «Invisible» Operating System
28 de julio de 2026 - By Simone Bertulli
Have you ever noticed? In cooking recipes, salt is often kept in a secondary position relative to other ingredients: everyone knows it's needed, and it's taken for granted.
But if it's missing, it shows. You feel it immediately.
Not everything that has importance and a strong presence gets mentioned and brought [...]
OS Community at DEF CON 34: LPI Media Partner
14 de julio de 2026
August 6-9, 2026
Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) West Hall, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is proud to serve as Media Partner for the OS Community at DEF CON 34, a dedicated community space celebrating open source operating systems and the people who build them.
Co-led [...]
Code That Built the Internet: The Impact of BSD, Part 2
26 de junio de 2026 - By Andrew Oram
The first article in this series introduced BSD and its tight relationship with the internet. We continue looking at particular features in this final part.
The Most Important Digital Communication Medium
Nowadays, we have many protocols and media for sharing information with our friends, our colleagues, and the world. There's traditional [...]