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People who spread fear through this myth are enforcing a software monoculture, which is just as bad for organizations as crop monocultures are for agriculture. Most companies nowadays use open formats, so colleagues won't even notice if you're using an open source tool to share files and send messages to [...]

This myth assumes that proprietary companies invest a lot of effort in ensuring that their code is correct and secure, whereas open source projects don't. But bugs and security flaws turn up in both proprietary and open source code. In addition to automated tests—often called "regression testing"—proprietary companies usually have [...]

What's making you hesitate to take advantage of free and open source software? Advocates for free software praise the ability of GNU/Linux to extend the life of old hardware and support an enormous range of systems; the customizations offered by many open source tools to advanced users; the confidence of [...]

Moreno Razzoli, aka Morrolinux, is a YouTuber, FOSS evangelist, and LPI’s Platinum Partner. He returns to this site support the Upgrade to Linux initiative. When you are starting your Linux journey, the first steps are extremely important. We have all been beginners at some stage. In this post Moreno shares [...]

Join Linux Professional Institute (LPI) community on Tuesday 6, 2022 from 11:30 PM EST - 01:30 PM EST to learn what are the five most common mistakes to avoid when you upgrade to Linux. The webinar will be a conversation between Moreno Razzoli AKA Morrolinux, Italy: YouTuber, FOSS Evangelist, LPI [...]

Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is entering the last phase of development of the new Security Essentials program. This phase includes public beta exams to which we invite selected candidates. Security Essentials covers basic knowledge of IT security. The focus is the digital self-defense of an individual user. This includes a [...]

This article continues a series about the most recent addition to Linux Professional Institute certifications: Web Development Essentials. The first part introduced the skills that make you a web developer; now we’ll look at the technologies required for each piece of the web experience, shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: [...]

Resistance to the new and unknown is part of human behavior. It is an evolutionary trait, which in general protects us against environmental hazards and at the same time prevents us from wasting energy unnecessarily. Recently, research has demonstrated that humans can have a natural tendency to avoid physical [...]

What organization can exist today without a web page? If you know how to create a web site, you can add enormous value to any organization you work for, and find employment almost anywhere. The Web Development Essentials certificate from Linux Professional Institute (LPI) helps you demonstrate that you [...]

The first article in this series looked at the key roles played by community and policy from the beginning in the Red Hat and Debian distributions of Linux. We’ll look at two other key success factors in this concluding part. Following a professional process to develop a reliable product After the [...]