The DevOps Tools Engineer Certification

Businesses across the globe are increasingly implementing DevOps practices to optimize daily systems administration and software development tasks. As a result, businesses across industries are hiring IT professionals that can effectively apply DevOps to reduce delivery time and improve quality in the development of new software products.To meet...

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The BSD Specialist Certification

The BSD Specialist certification is part of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Open Technology certification program.The exam focuses on the practical skills required to work successfully in a FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD environment and tests the knowledge and skills needed to administer BSD operating systems.The typical BSD Specialist...

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Difference Between Fedora and Kali Linux

Fedora OS, developed by Red Hat, is a Linux based open-source operating system. As it is Linux based, so it is freely available for use and is open source. It uses the DNF package manager and gnome environment along with anaconda installer. It supports 3 platforms, which are...

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Open Access Flips Hundreds of Years of Scientific Research

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We have viewed the spirit of openness from many angles—in free software, open government, and many other trends—in the Open Anniversary series published on this LPI site during 2021. No field has been more transformed by this spirit than academic research, represented by the Open Access movement. This...

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Grounding For Open Source Foundations: An Interview with Martin Michlmayr

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Foundations play a crucial role in open source. Few free software projects can set up a non-profit corporation and legal protection for their code, organize a board of directors to handle all their administrative needs, or raise the necessary funds. So we urgently need the Apache Foundation, Eclipse...

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Simone “Simo” Bertulli: Lpic-3 Security - How to Approach the Certification

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When you are LPIC-2 certified and start looking at the highest level of certification in Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the LPIC-3 specializations, you are faced with a choice. On the one hand, a better and more extensive academic preparation would help you build a solid knowledge background; on...

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Why I started... and ended up loving open source software

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Twenty-two years ago, I attended a few lessons about a "new" operating system, Red Hat Linux 4.2. At that time, my notes about the training were basic commands, enough to fill a little sheet of paper: my first cheat sheet for Linux.A couple of years later, I was...

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Why Free and Open Source Software is So Highly Valued

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The millions of projects on GitHub (just the largest of several code sharing sites) prove that people love to share software. Even though not all the projects have free licences, their availability for public examination shows that code sharing meets a powerful need. Meanwhile, free software is driving...

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