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Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1
2023 April 06
The world’s largest and most recognized Linux certification
LPIC-1 is the first certification in the multi-level Linux professional certification program of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI). The LPIC-1 will validate the candidate's ability to perform maintenance tasks on the command line, install and configure a computer running Linux and configure [...]
Linux Professional Institute Linux Essentials
2023 April 06
Show employers that you have the foundational skills required for your next job or promotion. With Linux Essentials.
Linux adoption continues to rise world-wide as individual users, government entities and industries ranging from automotive to space exploration embrace open source technologies. This expansion of open source in enterprise is redefining [...]
LPI Participate at AsiaBSDCon 2023
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Japan is pleased to announce its participation in AsiaBSDCon 2023, to be held from March 30 to April 2, 2023, with a booth.
AsiaBSDCon is an international conference for users and developers of BSD-based systems.
This year's conference will be held in Tokyo, Japan, from March [...]
Stepping up to Your Personal Security Role
2023 March 13 - By Jay LaCroix
Close your eyes and try to conjure an image or scenario in your mind around the phrase "cybersecurity incident". When you do so, what picture starts to form in your mind? Depending on your background and level of expertise, the image generated by your frontal cortex could very well [...]
Open Source Myth: That It Has a Higher Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
2023 March 10 - By Jon "maddog" Hall
This myth has been long-standing. Proprietary vendors would acknowledge that there were license fees associated with their software, but would point to the costs of migrating, re-training users, and higher wages and scarcity of comparable software support due to fewer "open source people" who can run free and open [...]
Why Seek an LPI Security Essentials Certificate?
2023 March 06 - By Wojciech Ciemski
IT security is more important than ever. We are all, as individuals and as organizations, exposed to IT security threats. Therefore, every computer user needs information about protecting computers and data.
This goal prompted LPI to create the Security Essentials certificate to explain IT security. Having this certificate is critical [...]
Open Source Myth: That It Will Be Incompatible With the Software Colleagues Use
2023 February 17 - By Andrew Oram
People who spread fear through this myth are enforcing a software monoculture, which is just as bad for organizations as crop monocultures are for agriculture.
Most companies nowadays use open formats, so colleagues won't even notice if you're using an open source tool to share files and send messages to [...]
Open Source Myth: That Open Source Has Poor Quality
2023 February 10 - By Andrew Oram
This myth assumes that proprietary companies invest a lot of effort in ensuring that their code is correct and secure, whereas open source projects don't. But bugs and security flaws turn up in both proprietary and open source code.
In addition to automated tests—often called "regression testing"—proprietary companies usually have [...]
Examining Myths That Hold People Back From Open Source Software
2023 January 30 - By LPI Editorial Team
What's making you hesitate to take advantage of free and open source software?
Advocates for free software praise the ability of GNU/Linux to extend the life of old hardware and support an enormous range of systems; the customizations offered by many open source tools to advanced users; the confidence of [...]