LPI LPIC-3 Mixed Environment

The LPIC-3 certification is the culmination of the multi-level professional certification program of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI). LPIC-3 is designed for the enterprise-level Linux professional and represents the highest level of professional, distribution-neutral Linux certification within the industry. Four separate LPIC-3 specialty certifications are available. Passing any...

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RAIT and Microdevice Spearhead LPI's Mission in the Indian Subcontinent

Given India's four million computing jobs and 880,000 computer science students annually enrolled, it is an important part of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) mission to internationally support open source professionals to offer certifications in that part of the world. I had the chance to talk with two...

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IpCert is now an LPI Gold Partner

IpCert is an Italian company specializing since 2009 in the provision of highly professional courses in IT, aimed at helping students gain the most critical industry certifications. The company offers courses toward Linux Professional Institute (LPI) certifications, along with other technologies (Microsoft Azure, VMware VCP-DCV certification, Cisco CCNP...

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LPI LPIC-3 Virtualization and Containerization

The LPIC-3 certification is the culmination of the multi-level professional certification program of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI). LPIC-3 is designed for the enterprise-level Linux professional and represents the highest level of professional, distribution-neutral Linux certification within the industry. Four separate LPIC-3 specialty certifications are available. Passing any...

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Strengthening Transgender Access to Jobs in Brazil: educaTRANSforma Supports the Whole Person

The transgender movement has created a cascade of coming-out, not least in Brazil, where researchers found that 0.69% of the population identifies as transgender, and 1.19% as non-binary. Employers in Brazil, as elsewhere, have also realized that creating safe spaced for transgender and non-binary people can tap a...

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Creating NFTs with Free and Open Source Software

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An unusual educational opportunity came to Linux Professional Institute (LPI) over the summer of 2021. Two interns–Alex, a Public Relations student and myself, Rozilyn, studying electrical and computer engineering–decided to create a set of NFTs as a learning excercise. This article describes the tools used by Alex and...

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Sonia Ben Othman: Achieving Equity and Supporting Growth for Women and Girls in FOSS

Part of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) mission of “promoting the use of open source by supporting the people who work with it” is facilitating equity. Supporting the adoption of FOSS and professional development of those that use it, in turn, allows Linux professionals to aid their communities,...

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A hackathon's story: first GHOFOSS hackathon, Italy

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Since the start of the project for an open history of FOSS, the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) defines it as a “glocal” one. By glocal, we mean the best possible mix of global and local history, stories, and initiatives.Sunday, October 24th, we had a great glocal hackathon to...

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Switching to GNU/Linux

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Switching to GNU/LinuxSwitching to a new and very different operating system is quite an endeavour - of course you don't have to switch entirely, nothing prevents you from using multiple operating systems - even on the same computer. This chapter describes some of the things to consider before...

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IT-Schulungen becomes a Linux Professional Institute Platinum Partner: a decade of educational success

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The Nürnberg Education Center, IT-Schulungen, celebrates a twofold achievement this month. First, March 2022 marks ten years of offering a complete set of courses for Linux Professional Institute (LPI) certification. At the same time, IT-Schulungen has reached the highest stage of excellence in LPI's partnership program by becoming...

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Open source careers: A tough start, a different future, a lot of FOSS

Hi, it's Dani here; Milo for my friends. I was born 40 years ago in Bogotá, Colombia, yes: the country tagged as violent and poor. That is not something you think about when you are a child and your dreams, no matter how ambitious they are, are within...

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