Linux Professional Institute (LPI)

A startling title appeared in the prestigious Yale Law Journal in 2002. At that time, academics, governments, and companies were exploring an exciting and potentially liberating idea: to take input about policies and products not just from duly credentialed experts, but from the general public. Pushing forward that narrative, Harvard Law Professor

True open hardware—where every component, from processors to firmware, is fully open and freely accessible—remains an elusive goal.

Recently, I tested two ARMSoM (Banana Pi) Single Board Computers (SBCs) powered by Rockchip System-on-Chip (SoC) processors. These boards promise AI acceleration, IoT connectivity, and embedded Linux support. But do they really represent p...

The first article in this two-part series looked at programming languages with long tenures. In this section we’ll examine a few cases of languages that didn’t fare so well—despite high hopes for them.
False Starts

Some languages make a big splash but fail to really catch on. The most salient example is Pascal. It was

Hi, I am Konstantinos Giannakakis and the following is my journey to IT and FOSS. When I first enrolled in university, computer science was neither my field of study nor a part of my career plans. I pursued a degree irrelevant to IT, but soon realized that computers were a valuable area of study. Essentially, I decided that the logic driving economies resembled the logic behi...

KSK Co., Ltd. considers the development of highly skilled engineers in the fields of infrastructure, networking, and cloud computing as a key component of its business strategy, and actively supports its employees in obtaining professional certifications.

For Linux engineer development, KSK uses the Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) – the globally recog...