Aug 18, 2025 · 24 min · 10 segments
What is going on these days with the Linux Professional Institute (LPI)? I sat down with Matthew Rice, the current Executive Director of LPI to find out! Way back in 1998/99, I was one of the…
Dan YorkHostWell, similar to that one where we decided to do Linux Essentials to help more people enter the, you know, the learning funnel.
When LPI first started, there was the agreement or, you know, policy or whatever that We did exams.
So what we, I think, finally accepted or got our heads around is there's actually a third pillar, which is the actual education materials.
because we were finding more and more companies wanted to do the training, but they kept going, well, what do we use to teach? Like our trainers can learn it and everything, but we got nothing that suits us.
Maybe eight or nine years ago, the board agreed that we should start developing some learning materials.
So in fact, learning.lpi.org is where they're hosted and they're all freely available.
I just checked and I think it's the Linux Essentials is in 14 languages so far.
So even though we only, you know, our exams are in around seven languages and then fewer and fewer as they get higher and higher.
we're still trying to make the learning materials available in as many languages as
And by volunteers, there's an honorarium because then you can actually say, You know, have you ever heard of a deadline? Yeah, right.
Otherwise, you know, volunteers come and go as the economy goes up and down, right? Exactly.
Well, similar to that one where we decided to do Linux Essentials to help more people enter the, you know, the learning funnel.
When LPI first started, there was the agreement or, you know, policy or whatever that We did exams.
So what we, I think, finally accepted or got our heads around is there's actually a third pillar, which is the actual education materials.
because we were finding more and more companies wanted to do the training, but they kept going, well, what do we use to teach? Like our trainers can learn it and everything, but we got nothing that suits us.
Maybe eight or nine years ago, the board agreed that we should start developing some learning materials.
So in fact, learning.lpi.org is where they're hosted and they're all freely available.
I just checked and I think it's the Linux Essentials is in 14 languages so far.
So even though we only, you know, our exams are in around seven languages and then fewer and fewer as they get higher and higher.
we're still trying to make the learning materials available in as many languages as
And by volunteers, there's an honorarium because then you can actually say, You know, have you ever heard of a deadline? Yeah, right.
Otherwise, you know, volunteers come and go as the economy goes up and down, right? Exactly.
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