LFCS (Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator) is the certification for people who prefer to prove their skills in practice: no multiple-choice questions — you receive a terminal and a list of real administration tasks to solve against the clock. It is maintained by the Linux Foundation itself, home of the kernel. This post is part of our series … Read more
Prepare for LPIC-1 with official objectives, a study plan, and exercises covering the terminal, permissions, links, backup, scripts, and packages.
If you have always wanted to switch to Linux — or already use it and want to stop relying on a tutorial for every task — this post is a direct invitation: Gabriel da Silveira Costa, creator of the Toca do Tux channel, offers the Udemy course “Linux: From Migration to Operating System Administration,” with enrollment … Read more
Video summary: this article is a detailed summary of “How Linux Took Over the World: 35 Years in 35 Facts” from Jono Bacon, former Ubuntu community leader at Canonical. Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffl2DFHoZdY On August 25, 1991, a 21-year-old Finnish student wrote a sentence that Jono Bacon … Read more
Intel invented the memory market, then abandoned it; invented the microprocessor almost by accident; put “Intel Inside” in offices around the world; and then lost, in succession, mobile phones, Apple, and the manufacturing leadership that defined it. Few companies explain so much of computing history. This is its journey … Read more
No technology company has died and been reborn as many times as AMD. Founded in 1969 to live in Intel’s shadow, it spent five decades alternating strokes of genius (Athlon, x86-64, Zen) with trips to the edge of the abyss — until an engineer named Lisa Su turned a US$ 2 stock into the largest … Read more
In 1993, three engineers met at a Denny’s restaurant in California to found a graphics chip company in a market that already had dozens of competitors. Thirty years later, that company would become, at several points, the most valuable on the planet. This is the history of NVIDIA: from the flops that almost killed it … Read more
Video summary: this article is a detailed, in-depth summary of “Linux 7.3 Review: AI Chaos, MASSIVE Performance, GPU, CPU, and Rust Upgrades” from SavvyNik, combined with Linus Torvalds’s official announcement closing the merge window. Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ5adDeOGb0 The Linux 7.3 kernel merge window … Read more
In 1984, while IBM and Apple fought for headlines, a 19-year-old freshman studying medicine was assembling PCs in his University of Texas dorm room. He discovered something the giants took decades to understand: selling directly to customers, without inventory or middlemen, changes everything. This is the history of Dell … Read more
Before there was a “Silicon Valley,” there was a wooden garage in Palo Alto. There, in 1939, two recent Stanford engineering graduates founded the company that would define the model for every startup that followed: Hewlett-Packard. This is the history of HP — from garage to giant, from calculators that retired the slide rule … Read more
