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The field of education was greatly boosted by Moodle, the free and open source software for course development. Released in 2002, Moodle has been used collaboratively by teachers and curriculum developers to create and share their courses. In the Philippines, … Per saperne di più

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 … Per saperne di più

Computer developers cluster around favored programming languages, as sports fans do around local or national teams. Some languages (Lua, for instance) find a very narrow niche whose devotees attribute great value to it. Other languages, such as C and C++, … Per saperne di più

When you start preparing for DevOps interviews, you quickly realize something: you can’t “fake” Linux. Interviewers don’t want textbook answers. They want to know if you can actually unpack an operating or broken system in the terminal and extract the … Per saperne di più

EDUtech Australia 2026, held at the International Convention Centre Sydney on June 3-4, brought together educators, training providers, technology innovators, and policy leaders from across Australia. For Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the event offered two intensive days of connection with … Per saperne di più

The UN Tech Over Hackathon, the opening event of UN Open Source Week 2026, concluded on June 22 at United Nations Headquarters in New York. Linux Professional Institute (LPI) participated as one of the co-organizers and sponsors of the hackathon, … Per saperne di più

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 … Per saperne di più

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 … Per saperne di più

Like the Spanish Inquisition, nobody expected the internet. Its earliest appearance (as ARPANET) took place in the same year—1969—as the comedy troupe behind the Spanish Inquisition quip, Monty Python. But during its first decade, the internet was treated as a … Per saperne di più

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 … Per saperne di più

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 … Per saperne di più

The future is already here. And in the history recounted by this series, the reason is remarkably simple: it never went anywhere. We live in an era where technology permeates every moment of our existence; where the consolidation of technological … Per saperne di più