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(Sacramento, CA, USA: September 4, 2013) - The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced the launch of LPI Academy, a Linux education program for accredited degree / diploma-granting academic institutions, high schools, middle schools, and government training programs. The LPI Academy will assist educators to prepare students and employees for careers in Linux and Open Source technology (http://www.lpi.org/partnerships/academy).

(Sacramento and Portland, OR, USA: August 27, 2013) - The Linux Professional Institute (LPI: http://www.lpi.org), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced that DetaCloud (http://www.detacloud.com), a provider of enterprise cloud solutions built on OpenStack®, has joined LPI's Corporate Membership Program. DetaCloud will collaborate with LPI on accelerating Open Source Cloud technologies adoption and experiential training.

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced promotional exam labs for their Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) at Ohio LinuxFest 2013 on Sunday September 15, 2013.

This two-day introduction to Linux broadens attendees horizons with a detailed overview of the operating system. Attendees learn how to effectively use a Linux system as a valuable tool. They get familiar with the architecture and various components of the operating system, learn both graphical and command line tools, and learn to do basic networking. August 10th - 11th, 2013 .

Sacramento, CA, USA: July 31, 2013 - The Linux Professional Institute (LPI: http://www.lpi.org), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced a Corporate Membership Program for partner organizations interested in promoting growth opportunities in Linux and Open Source Software. The program enables partner organizations to directly develop and recruit Linux and Open Source talent through targeted multi-media, product promotions and other educational resources provided to LPI alumni and other Open Source professionals. Organizations such as Cloudera (http://wwww.cloudera.com), Dice (http://www.dice.com), Medialinx IT-Academy (http://www.medialinx-academy.de), oDesk (http://www.oDesk.com), Open Source Software Institute (http://oss-institute.org), Rackspace (http://www.rackspace.com) and uCertify (http://www.ucertify.com) have recently joined this new initiative.

The Linux Career IT Skills Watch brings to you the updated statistics, which refer to the period between May and Jun 2013. The results of LinuxCareer.com research reflect up to date, approximate IT skills demand leaning towards the Linux and Unix environment. The biggest drop was made by the LPI certification, which seems to be losing ground in comparison to other major certification providers. The reason for this could be the generic nature of the LPI certification, which does not appear to be very appealing for many employers right now.

(Sacramento, CA, USA - Athens, Greece: July 23, 2013) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI: http://www.lpi.org), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced that its affiliate, LPI-Greece (http://www.lpi.org.gr/) recently signed HP Hellas (http://www8.hp.com/gr/el/home.html) as an LPI Approved Training Partner in Greece. HP Hellas is a subsidiary of HP in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: July 9, 2013) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI: http://www.lpi.org), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced it has become a member of the European e-Skills Association (EeSA: http://eskillsassociation.eu/). EeSA supports the development of e-skills and digital literacy in Europe in partnership with the European Commission, public authorities across Europe, SMEs and other stakeholders. LPI joins the following other EeSA members: the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS), Cisco, CompTIA, ECDL Foundation, The European CIO Association, EXIN, HP, Microsoft and Oracle.

(Sacramento, CA, USA - Thessaloniki, Greece: July 3, 2013) - The Linux Professional Institute (LPI: http://www.lpi.org), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced promotional exam labs for their Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) at openSUSE 2013 Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece (http://conference.opensuse.org/) on July 20, 2013.

LinuxCertified,Inc. a leading provider of Linux training, will offer weekend Linux system administration bootcamp on June 29th - 30th, 2013 in South Bay (CA). This workshop is designed for busy information technology professionals and is designed to cover the most important Linux administration areas.

(Sacramento, USA: June 18, 2013) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI: http://www.lpi.org), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced it has completed an extensive review and update of the exam objectives for their LPIC-2 and LPIC-3 certification programs. The new exams for LPIC-2 will be available November 1, 2013 in English and LPIC-3 will be available October 1, 2013 in English. Other language for both certification programs TBA.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: June 11, 2013) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI: http://www.lpi.org), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced a promotional exam lab for their Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) at EuroPython 2013 (https://ep2013.europython.eu/). LPI's affiliate, LPI-Italy (http://www.lpi-italia.org) is hosting the exam lab and is a certification sponsor of EuroPython 2013.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: June 4, 2013) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI: http://www.lpi.org), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced a partnership initiative with Big Data Cloud (http://www.bigdatacloud.com/) -- a not-for-profit organization evangelizing the new technology movement regarding Big Data and the Cloud. The partnership initiative will promote events and other educational resources for LPI alumni on topics related to Big Data and the Cloud. Big Data Cloud hosts annual events and monthly meetups and has over 2700+ members. It is founded and operated by Third Eye Consulting Services & Solutions LLC (http://thirdeyecss.com/).

(Sacramento, CA, USA: May 23, 2013) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI: http://www.lpi.org), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced promotional exam labs for their Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) at the SouthEast LinuxFest (SELF: http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/) at 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., June 9th at the Blake Hotel in Charlotte, NC. In addition, during SELF, Darrell Flewell, LPI CFO, will deliver a presentation on "Preparing For A Fantastic Career In Linux and Open Source" at 2:45 p.m., Saturday, June 8th in the Linode room of the Blake Hotel.

In this configuration tutorial we will guide you through the process of configuring sendmail to be an email relay for your gmail or google apps account. This allows you to send email from your bash scripts, hosted website or from command line using mail command. Other examples where you can utilize this setting is for a notification purposes such or failed backups etc. Sendmail is just one of many utilities which can be configured to rely on gmail account where the others include postfix, exim , ssmpt etc. In this tutorial we will use sendmail for this task.

Sacramento, CA, USA: May 2, 2013) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced a partnership program with oDesk® (http://www.oDesk.com), the world's largest online workplace, to promote workforce development initiatives for Linux and Open Source professionals. This partnership will connect Open Source talent through oDesk's job marketplace platform and enable LPIC candidates to display their official LPIC badges on their oDesk® profiles.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: April 16, 2013) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI: http:/www.lpi.org), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced that its affiliate LPI-Spain (http://www.lpi.org.es/) will be participating in the first “Tech Learning Day“ hosted by PUE (Proyecto Universidad Empresa/University Enterprise Project: http://www.pue.es/lpi), May 7th in Madrid, Spain at the NH Eurobuilding Hotel.

Guest Writer Dedoimedo shares his wisdom and gives excellent advice for those interested in pursuing a Linux career. The 'hard work ethic' does pay off. Read why.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: April 10, 2013) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced that "beta" exams for their revised Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) program (LPIC-2 and LPIC-3 levels) will be available at LinuxTag Berlin 2013 (May 22-25: http://www.linuxtag.org/2013/en/program/certified-knowledge....). LinuxTag 2013 also marks the 10th anniversary of "LPI e.V. (www.lpi-german.de) -- the first representation of LPI in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and presently an affiliate of LPI-Central Europe (LPI-CE: http://www.lpice.eu/). LPI-CE will also offer exams at promotional pricing for all of LPI's certification program at the event.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: April 8, 2013) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced promotional exam labs for their Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) at the Texas Linux Fest (http://2013.texaslinuxfest.org/) at the AT&T; Conference Center in Austin, Texas on May 31, 2013.

LinuxCertified,Inc. a leading provider of Linux training, will offer weekend Linux system administration bootcamp on April 20th - 21st, 2013 in South Bay (CA). This workshop is designed for busy information technology professionals and is designed to cover the most important Linux administration areas.

This two-day introduction to Linux broadens attendees horizons with a detailed overview of the operating system. Attendees learn how to effectively use a Linux system as a valuable tool. They get familiar with the architecture and various components of the operating system, learn both graphical and command line tools, and learn to do basic networking. This class is scheduled for April 13th - 14th, 2013 .

This two-day introduction to Linux broadens attendees horizons with a detailed overview of the operating system. Attendees learn how to effectively use a Linux system as a valuable tool. They get familiar with the architecture and various components of the operating system, learn both graphical and command line tools, and learn to do basic networking. This class is scheduled for April 13th - 14th, 2013 .

(Sacramento, CA, USA: March 27, 2013) - The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced promotional exam labs for their Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) at FOSSCOMM 2013 Greek Open Source Communities Summit in Athens, Greece (http://hua.FOSSCOMM.gr) on April 21, 2013.

LinuxCertified,Inc. a leading provider of Linux training, will offer weekend Linux system administration bootcamp on March 23rd - 24th, 2013 in South Bay (CA). This workshop is designed for busy information technology professionals and is designed to cover the most important Linux administration areas.

The Linux Professional Institute announced an innovative partnership initiative to deliver an entry-level technology certification program to address the workforce development needs of both employers and aspiring IT professionals. The program will offer a combined training program in both LPI's Linux Essentials "Certificate of Achievement" and either the CIW's Internet Business Associate (IBA) or Network Technology Associate (NTA) certifications. This combined training and accreditation program will be delivered through CIW's Certification Testing Centers.

(Los Angeles, CA, USA: February 21, 2013) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced that its Linux Essentials program which measures foundational knowledge in Linux and Open Source Software has met the requirements of the K-12 Computer Science Standards of the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA: http://www.csta.acm.org/). The CSTA has 41 chapters throughout North America and members in 126 countries worldwide.

Question2Answer (Q2A) is a popular open source Q&A; solution, currently in use on thousands sites world-wide in 40 languages. It is built on the standard PHP/MySQL platform, and runs safe and fast. A Q&A; engine helps you to create an online community to share knowledge. People with questions quickly get the answers they need. The community dynamic is enriched by commenting, voting, notifications, user points and rankings. In this guide we will show you how to install this popular software on Ubuntu LAMP.

LinuxCertified,Inc. a leading provider of Linux training, will offer weekend Linux system administration bootcamp on February 23rd - 24th, 2013 in South Bay (CA). This workshop is designed for busy information technology professionals and is designed to cover the most important Linux administration areas.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: February 6, 2013) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced its participation at CeBIT 2013, March 5-9, 2013 (Hannover, Germany: http://www.cebit.de). During the conference, LPI representatives will present on the subject of advancing IT workforce development in Linux and Open Source, specifically during the conference's activities for CeBIT's Partner Country of Poland. CeBIT has a 20+ year history as one of the world's largest conferences and trade shows for IT and telecommunications solutions and LPI has been a regular participant for several years.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: January 31, 2013) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced that in 2012 the organization surpassed two significant milestones: delivering over 350,000 exams and 120,000 certifications worldwide since the organization's inception.

The export command is one of the bash shell BUILTINS commands, which means it is part of your shell. The export command is fairly simple to use as it has straightforward syntax with only three available command options. In general, the export command marks an environment variable to be exported with any newly forked child processes and thus it allows a child process to inherit all marked variables. If you are unsure what this means read on, as this article will explain this process in more detail.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: January 24, 2013) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced upcoming changes to their LPIC-2 and LPIC-3 certification programs. New objectives for these certifications are presently under development. New exams will be available in English on October 1, 2013 with local translations and pricing TBA.

The alias command is a handy tool to have if you often work on the command line. If set correctly it will help you to type your commands faster as well as it will even help you to correct your typos. alias is a shell builtin command, which means that no installation is required as it is available on your system by default. This tutorial will teach you how to use the alias command in the Linux operating system by explaining the alias command in more detail with use of examples.

This two-day introduction to Linux broadens attendees horizons with a detailed overview of the operating system. Attendees learn how to effectively use a Linux system as a valuable tool. They get familiar with the architecture and various components of the operating system, learn both graphical and command line tools, and learn to do basic networking. This class is scheduled for January 28th - 29th, 2013 .

If you have not hear about split command than you are missing a lot. As command's name suggests split command helps you to split file into smaller files. split works on any file whether it is binary or text file. This is quite useful if you cannot fit entire file on storage device such as tape or you want to split large file to be able to send it via email which has file size restrictions. You can also split large text files such as log files to smaller chunks based on the number of bytes. This article will describe syntax and usage of split command.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: January 17, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced promotional exam labs for their Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) at SCALE 11x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/index.html) at the Hilton Los Angeles International Airport Hotel, Los Angeles, California on February 24, 2013. This is the fourth year LPI has participated as a certification sponsor of SCALE.

Did you know that you can assign more that one IP address to a single physical network interface? This technique is quite useful, for example when working with Apache and virtual hosts, as it allows you to access same Apache server by using two different IP addresses. The process of creating a virtual network interface in Linux is a quite simple matter. It involves a single execution of the ifconfig command.

When navigating the Linux file system you are sure to encounter different file types. The most used and obvious file types are regular files and directories. However, the Linux operating system has more to offer in terms of file types as it also includes another 5 file types. This short article will help you to recognize all the 7 different file types within the Linux operating system.

LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, announced its next Embedded and Real-Time Linux Development class to be held in San Francisco Bay Area from February 13th - 15th, 2013.

(Sacramento, USA: December 18, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced that in 2012 they grew their training partner program to include 322 participating organizations (up more than 5% from just over 300 partners in 2011). Most significant was that LPI added seven new training organizations in North America in 2012. LPI has training partners in over 50 countries around the world.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: November 29, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), applauds the release of the flagship report "The Information Economy Report 2012: The Software Industry and Developing Countries" by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The report provides specific recommendations on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for national policy makers and includes two examples of the value of LPI's training and certification programs for ICT development.

LinuxCertified,Inc. a leading provider of Linux training, will offer weekend Linux system administration bootcamp on December 8th - 9th, 2012 in South Bay (CA). This workshop is designed for busy information technology professionals and is designed to cover the most important Linux administration areas.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: November 21, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced volunteer awards for Anselm Lingnau of Linup Front, Weiterstadt, Germany and Michael Gisbers of Linux-Schmie.de, Oberhausen, Germany in recognition of their contributions and commitment to LPI's Linux Essentials program. The two volunteers were amongst 70 Linux professionals and 56 IT organizations and academic institutions who assisted in the exam development process for Linux Essentials (http://lpi.org/linux-certifications/introductory-programs/li...).

It is our firm belief that Linux, despite its advances on the desktop side, as well as on tablets, should be taught starting with the command line. That's because it's an operating system that borrows heavily from Unix(TM), and there was nothing more than a text interface on it at the very beginning. Studies have shown that, if applicable, one is more efficient on the command-line rather than using a graphical user interface (GUI). "If applicable" means that we're not referring at photo/video editing or some other task that requires a graphical environment.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: October 18, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), will offer all LPIC exams and the new Linux Essentials exam at the Hoosier Educational Computer Coordinators Conference (HECC) November 16, 2012, at the Crowne Plaza, Union Station in Indianapolis, Indiana (http://hecc.k12.in.us/conference/sessions/index.cfm). During the HECC State Conference, LPI will also offer its popular full day LPIC-1 Exam Cram workshop on Thursday, November 14 (http://hecc.k12.in.us/conference/workshops/index.cfm).

LinuxCertified,Inc. a leading provider of Linux training, will offer weekend Linux system administration bootcamp on October 20th - 21st, 2012 in South Bay (CA). This workshop is designed for busy information technology professionals and is designed to cover the most important Linux administration areas.

(Warsaw, Poland and Kassel, Germany: October 3, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI: http://www.lpi.org), the world's premier Linux certification organization and its affiliate, LPI-Central Europe (http://www.lpice.eu/), hosted the first LPI Forum, a conference for government officials, Linux professionals and Open Source Software organizations on the future of IT careers at the Warsaw University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland on September 28, 2012.

This two-day introduction to Linux broadens attendees horizons with a detailed overview of the operating system. Attendees learn how to effectively use a Linux system as a valuable tool. They get familiar with the architecture and various components of the operating system, learn both graphical and command line tools, and learn to do basic networking. This class is scheduled for October 18th - 19th, 2012.

(Columbus, OH and Sacramento, CA, USA: September 29, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced during Ohio LinuxFest 2012 in Columbus, Ohio (OLF: http://ohiolinux.org) that LPI's Linux Essentials program measuring foundational knowledge in Linux and Open Source Software is now available in North America. Linux Essentials was initially released as a pilot program in Europe, the Middle East and Africa but due to popular demand has now expanded to North America.