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What is Linux? Eight Ways It Changed Our Lives, Part 1
13 de agosto de 2026 - By Andrew Oram
A startling title appeared in the prestigious Yale Law Journal in 2002. At that time, academics, governments, and companies were exploring an exciting and potentially liberating idea: to take input about policies and products not just from duly credentialed experts, but from the general public. Pushing forward that narrative, [...]
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 [...]
A Curiosity For Linux: Alejandra’s Foss Path
23 de junio de 2026 - By Max Roveri
What begins with curiosity can shape a career. In this interview, we meet Alejandra Retana Piedra, whose first encounter with Linux as a child in Costa Rica quietly sparked a journey into IT and open source. Today, her passion and persistence connect her local experience with the global landscape [...]
Continuous Growth for Linux on the Desktop
11 de junio de 2026 - By Simone Bertulli
For quite some time now, Linux has been waiting for that long-awaited "breakthrough year" on the desktop market: a chance to chip away at those percentage points that signal real progress.
This time around, something might actually give it that extra push. It's worth analyzing point by point to understand [...]
LPI, OSSMalta Sign MoU for Malta’s Digital Growth
10 de junio de 2026
Valletta, Malta / Ontario, Canada, 2026-06-10 — Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the global standard for open source certification, and the Open Source Society Malta (OSSMalta) are proud to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). This landmark agreement is designed to catalyze Malta’s success in the global [...]
How Kubernetes Came to Dominate Large-Scale Computing: Part 2
5 de junio de 2026 - By Andrew Oram
The first article in this two-part series laid out the landscape of distributed computing just before containers became a viable option. Now we’ll bring the story up to date.
Although the term "containers" originated with the Docker project, the idea is usually traced back to a feature that the FreeBSD [...]