The Linux Foundation's new Linux Certification program

By Vasudev Ram

Saw this recently via the newsletter I get from The Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is introducing a new Linux certification program. It will be available anywhere, online.

Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation, has details about it in this blog post:

Linux Growth Demands Bigger Talent Pool

There are two certifications:

Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS)

Linux Foundation Certified Engineer (LFCE)

These Linux certifications are likely to be a good value addition to anyone seeking to start or grow a career involving Linux, since they are from the official foundation that is behind Linux - the Linux Foundation, which does a lot of work related to sponsoring Linux development (*), conducting conferences like LinuxCon, etc.

In fact, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux Torvalds, the founder of Linux - Linus is a Linux Foundation Fellow. See this page about the Linux Fellow Program - Linus's name is at the top of the list of Linux Fellows.
On a related note, if you are into Linux and would like to learn how to write Linux command-line utilities in C, check out this blog post by me on the topic of Developing a Linux command-line utility in C, an article I wrote for IBM developerWorks a while ago. It got many views and a 4-star rating, and some people have told me they used the article (which is a tutorial) as a guide to developing command-line utilities on Linux for production use.


- Vasudev Ram - Python and Linux training and consulting - Dancing Bison Enterprises

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My IBM developerWorks article: Developing a Linux command-line utility

By Vasudev Ram

I had written an article about Developing a Linux command-line utility for IBM developerWorks (IBM dW), some years ago. It was a tutorial on how to write Linux command-line utilities in C. It used a real-life Linux utility that I had earlier written [1], to show some of the techniques involved in writing such utilities for general-purpose use.

[1] I had originally written the utility for production use for one of the largest motorcycle manufacturers in the world.

The article was fairly well-received while it was on the site (for a long time) and received multiple four-star ratings (out of a possible five stars). It was viewed over 35,000 times. Since it was recently archived from the IBM dW site, I thought of putting up the article - as a PDF file [2], with the accompanying source code, in a project on my Bitbucket account, for the benefit of those interested in learning how to write Linux command-line utilities in C. The name of the utility was selpg (for select pages), so I named the project selpg on Bitbucket too.

[2] I got to know that the article had been archived from the IBM dW site, and wrote to them asking for a copy of the PDF of the article, which they kindly sent me.

Here is the selpg project on Bitbucket:

Developing a Linux command-line utility (selpg)

And you can get the article and all the source files here:

selpg source

In an upcoming post, I'll show a few practical uses of the selpg utility.

Enjoy.

- Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises. Python, C, Linux and open source consulting and training.

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