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Xen Virtualization and Cloud Computing #05: The Xen Project, Unikernels, and the Future
2020 octobre 29 - By Mohsen Mostafa Jokar
Previous articles in this series introduced virtualization, described how Xen achieves it through its architecture and key features, and described other platforms with which Xen interacts. This article wraps up the series by describing some exciting advances in virtualization and how Xen supports them.
As we’ve seen, a hypervisor loads [...]
Linux Professional Institute Italia sponsor of Linux Day Italia 2020
October 24 - 25, 2020
Given the exceptional circumstances that Italy and the world are experiencing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 edition of Linux Day Italia follows the path started by many other events and moves online. With a unified, national panel of talks and contributions in contrast to [...]
Xen Virtualization and Cloud Computing #04: Containers, OpenStack, and Other Related Platforms
2020 octobre 22 - By Mohsen Mostafa Jokar
Previous articles in this series introduced virtualization, discussed how Xen’s architecture provides it, and covered interesting Xen features. This article looks at some other platforms with which Xen interacts: containers and OpenStack.
Virtualization, containers—or both?
Containers are a mechanism for isolating processes, similar to virtualization. With Docker and Kubernetes, containers have [...]
Xen Virtualization and Cloud Computing #03: Key Features of Xen
2020 octobre 15 - By Mohsen Mostafa Jokar
The previous articles in this series introduced virtualization and showed how Xen is designed to provide it efficiently. Here we’ll delve into some interesting features and their importance. A larger list can be found at the appropriate project page on features. At time of writing this article, the most [...]
Xen Virtualization and Cloud Computing #02: How Xen Does the Job
2020 octobre 08 - By Mohsen Mostafa Jokar
This is the second article in a series. The first introduced virtualization and the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). This article explains how Xen uses different types of virtualization to achieve efficient isolation of virtual machines (VMs).
Hardware and operating system support
Xen runs as host on a number of Unix-like [...]
Open source careers: How Brittany Gates found her way to Linux
2020 octobre 07 - By Brittany Gates
At the end of 2019, Linux Professional Institute (LPI) celebrated 20 years of offering training and tests. The LPI20 Birthday Contest gave us the opportunity to hear from you some amazing stories about your careers in open source and how the LPI certification program helped you. Over the next weeks, [...]
Xen Virtualization and Cloud Computing #01: Introduction
2020 octobre 01 - By Mohsen Mostafa Jokar
The Xen Project is a free and open source hypervisor that enables a computer to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on the same hardware. This article begins a series that covers the way Xen achieves this result efficiently, important features, and ways in which the Xen Project is supporting [...]
Benefits of Becoming an LPI Member
2020 septembre 25 - By G. Matthew Rice
Recently, Linux Professional Institute (LPI) launched a formal membership program for holders of its professional level certifications. This program includes holders of LPIC-1 certifications or higher, as well as those certified in the growing list of Open Technology topics.
Membership allows certificate holders to incrementally update their knowledge and prolong [...]
How to Contribute to an Open Source Project
2020 septembre 24 - By Birthe Lindenthal
It is great to see that the strategic relevance of open source software for the software industry is rapidly increasing (e.g. shown by IBM and Microsoft investing heavily into open source) and companies as well as individuals increasingly acknowledge the importance and advantages of open source.
One of the special [...]
LPI Proud to be Supporting DebConf20
August 23 - 29, 2020
Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is excited to be a silver sponsor at DebConf20, takeing place online, from August 23 - 29, 2020.
DebConf is the annual conference for Debian contributors and users interested in improving Debian. Previous Debian conferences have featured speakers and attendees from all around the [...]