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Join Linux Professional Institute (LPI), along with our Channel Partner, OSBC and their Approved Training Partner, SmartPro on December 11, 2020 at 3 PM (GMT+7) for a deep dive into penetration testing using Kali Linux. This webinar will be held in Vietnamese. SmartPro Consulting and Training Joint Stock Company specializes [...]

There are many learning materials about Linux and other free technologies on the Web, free of charge and accessible around the world. But one big barrier keeps many people from reading them: most are written in English, which billions of people do not know or aren’t comfortable with. Books [...]

The LPIC-1 Learning Materials for the 101 exam are now available in Spanish and Portuguese. This comprehensive guide is part of a series of Learning Materials developed by Linux Professional Institute (LPI) volunteers around the world to alert candidates to the topics they will encounter on the LPI exams. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]