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Zigging while others are zagging
These days, at least in the US, it’s common for airline safety announcement to conclude with something like, “We know you have a choice of carriers and we appreciate that you chose us today”. It’s a nice sentiment, but it … Read more
Open Source Journeys: In Conversation With Carla Schroder
Today’s podcast features Carla Schroder, a self-described “tool nerd” who went on to become a big name in the world of open source articles, blogs, and actual paper books. Specifically, Carla has written “Linux Cookbook”, “Linux Networking Cookbook”, and “The … Read more
Doing It For The Right Reasons: Millennials, Open Source, and Philosophy
By Marcel Gagné Congratulations on choosing a carreer in Linux and Open Source! If you’re just starting on the journey, I wish you all the best. I’m thrilled to hear that you’ve decided to pursue a career in Linux and … Read more
Will A Robot Eat Your Job?
One of my favourite news shows did a depressing story about jobs and careers, that somehow made me feel better about mine. Among my few regular watches on television these days is “Last Week Tonight”, an HBO news/comedy show hosted … Read more
Are you ready to be a DevOps Engineer?
Congratulations! You have just passed the LPI DevOps certification exam. You are now ready for action when it comes to the tool- and tech-side of DevOps. To become an even better DevOps Engineer, there are three topics that will help … Read more
Why are Beta Exams Important for the Certification Development?
In the fall of 2018, LPI held beta exam labs for the updated LPIC-1 certification. Exam development is a complex process, both when it comes to updating existing certifications, and when it comes to developing new ones, such as the … Read more
Linux Essentials Version 1.6 Update
Besides LPIC-1, the Linux Essential certificate received an update in October 2018, too. It is a minor update which brings the certificate from version 1.5 to version 1.6 and only includes a few changes. In today’s post we take a … Read more
LPIC-1: Clouds, Desktops and Some More Changes
Besides the topics discussed in the last posts, LPIC-1 version 5.0 introduces various small changes which we will discuss today. Most noticeably, the new objective ‘Linux as a virtualization guest’, was added to exam 101. This objective covers specialties of running … Read more
LPIC-1: iproute2 and NetworkManager
The restructuring of the networking objectives is one of the major changes in LPIC-1 version 5.0. The entire topic 109 is dedicated to the connectivity of your system. The new structure divides the topic into networking fundamentals (109.1), persistent network … Read more
LPIC-1: Systemd Beyond Services
In today’s post, we review some topics related to systemd that go beyond starting and stopping services. These topics were added to LPIC-1 in version 5.0. Objective 101.3 already covered systemd in version 4.0. The focus of this objective is managing … Read more
LPIC-1: Loading Linux
In October 2018, LPI updated LPIC-1 to version 5.0 and Linux Essentials to version 1.6. In this blog series we will review the major changes introduced by these updates. Today, we start with an overview of ways to load the … Read more
Recent Technical Innovation Requires New Exams: LPIC-1 version 5.0
Since October 2018, the latest versions of the LPIC-1 exams are available. Many people see the exams 101 and 102, which are required to obtain the ‘LPIC-1: Linux Administrator’ certification, as an ideal starting point to launch a career in … Read more