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Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is the global certification standard and career support organization for open source professionals. With more than?250,000 certification holders, it’s the world’s first and largest vendor-neutral Linux and open source certification body. LPI has certified professionals in over 180 countries, delivers exams in multiple?languages, and has hundreds of training partners.
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COSCUP x RubyConf 2025: Taiwan’s Open Source Superweek Is Here!
Get ready for a weekend where code meets community—COSCUP x RubyConf Taiwan 2025 is set to light up NTUST, Taipei on August 9–10! This year’s conference blends the energy of Taiwan’s largest open-source gathering with the precision of RubyConf, creating ... Read more
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LPI Welcomes New Board Members
Toronto, 2025-08-04 — Linux Professional Institute (LPI) announces the formation of its new Board of Directors, constituted at the inaugural meeting held on July 10. Four new Members and one returning Member, elected at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on ... Read more
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Kevin Aguirre: From LPI Certificate to DevOps Role
I am Kevin Aguirre, a developer and soon-to-be IT infrastructure administrator. My journey in technology took off when I started as a programmer, and as I delved deeper into coding I encountered Linux. Working with Linux was a revelation: it ... Read more
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The most interesting projects in the world run on Linux.
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Linux runs everywhere at SpaceX
SpaceX as a company strongly believes in making humans into multi-planetary species. A mars colony is the goal, but in order to get there you need rockets and spaceships” – Robert Rose, Lead for the avionics flight software team at SpaceX
U.S. Air Traffic Control relies on Linux
Because Linux is the most reliable when unreliability isn’t an option.
The Internet Archive runs on Linux
The Internet Archive uses hundreds of x86 servers to catalogue the internet, with all of them running Linux.
International space station ditches Windows for Linux
“We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable” – Keith Chuvala, United Space Alliance
NASA’s Curiosity Rover is remotely controlled with a Linux computer
Linux is preferred amongst scientists on earth, so it’s not surprising it’s preferred on Mars.
Hollywood runs on Linux
It’s hard to find a large studio that doesn’t rely on Linux as its primary animation and special effects OS
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