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LPI at ACTE CareerTech VISION 2026: Open Source Careers for CTE
December 2-5, 2026 New Orleans, Louisiana, United States Ernest N. Morial Convention Center Linux Professional Institute (LPI) will participate in ACTE’s CareerTech VISION 2026, the premier event for career and technical education (CTE) professionals and the centerpiece of ACTE’s centennial ... Read more
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LPI to Offer Linux Essentials 2.0 Beta Exam at FrOSCon 2026
Sankt Augustin/Toronto, 2026-07-29 — Linux Professional Institute (LPI) will offer visitors to FrOSCon 2026, taking place on August 15–16, 2026, in Sankt Augustin, Germany, the opportunity to take the Linux Essentials 2.0 Beta exam as a paper-based test. The beta ... Read more
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VMs and Containers: Rivalry or Convergence?
For years the debate was “will virtual machines be replaced by containers?” Today the answer seems to be a different one, because in the meantime the question itself has changed: does the replacement even make sense, if the two technologies ... 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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