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Xen Virtualization and Cloud Computing #03: Key Features of Xen
2020 octobre 15 - By Mohsen Mostafa Jokar
The previous articles in this series introduced virtualization and showed how Xen is designed to provide it efficiently. Here we’ll delve into some interesting features and their importance. A larger list can be found at the appropriate project page on features. At time of writing this article, the most [...]
Xen Virtualization and Cloud Computing #02: How Xen Does the Job
2020 octobre 08 - By Mohsen Mostafa Jokar
This is the second article in a series. The first introduced virtualization and the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). This article explains how Xen uses different types of virtualization to achieve efficient isolation of virtual machines (VMs).
Hardware and operating system support
Xen runs as host on a number of Unix-like [...]
Open source careers: How Brittany Gates found her way to Linux
2020 octobre 07 - By Brittany Gates
At the end of 2019, Linux Professional Institute (LPI) celebrated 20 years of offering training and tests. The LPI20 Birthday Contest gave us the opportunity to hear from you some amazing stories about your careers in open source and how the LPI certification program helped you. Over the next weeks, [...]
Xen Virtualization and Cloud Computing #01: Introduction
2020 octobre 01 - By Mohsen Mostafa Jokar
The Xen Project is a free and open source hypervisor that enables a computer to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on the same hardware. This article begins a series that covers the way Xen achieves this result efficiently, important features, and ways in which the Xen Project is supporting [...]
Benefits of Becoming an LPI Member
2020 septembre 25 - By G. Matthew Rice
Recently, Linux Professional Institute (LPI) launched a formal membership program for holders of its professional level certifications. This program includes holders of LPIC-1 certifications or higher, as well as those certified in the growing list of Open Technology topics.
Membership allows certificate holders to incrementally update their knowledge and prolong [...]
How to Contribute to an Open Source Project
2020 septembre 24 - By Birthe Lindenthal
It is great to see that the strategic relevance of open source software for the software industry is rapidly increasing (e.g. shown by IBM and Microsoft investing heavily into open source) and companies as well as individuals increasingly acknowledge the importance and advantages of open source.
One of the special [...]
LPI Proud to be Supporting DebConf20
August 23 - 29, 2020
Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is excited to be a silver sponsor at DebConf20, takeing place online, from August 23 - 29, 2020.
DebConf is the annual conference for Debian contributors and users interested in improving Debian. Previous Debian conferences have featured speakers and attendees from all around the [...]
Open source for distance learning: GARR and the IoRestoACasa.work initiative
2020 septembre 10 - By Max Roveri
Italy was one of the first countries to impose strict lockdown measures as the COVID-19 virus started to devastate the northern part of the country. Many people there were unused to working or learning from home, and needed a simple, free tool for videoconferencing. A free software solution was [...]
The value of open source to universities: UC Santa Cruz tests the water
2020 juillet 28 - By Andrew Oram
In addition to providing the world with its most enduring and valuable software--Internet protocol stacks, Linux, and more--free and open source software offers immense educational benefits. The gap between producing a nice prime number generator for a professor and contributing to real-life production code is huge, and numerous programmers [...]
LPI is Thrilled to Support Campus Party Digital 2020
July 9 - 11, 2020
Linux Professional Institute (LPI) invites you to connect, virtually, with them at Campus Party Digital to hear from a number of LPI partners and main stage presenters! LPI is excited to support and collaborate with Campus Party this year and many more.
The Virtual Experience
An entirely [...]