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What’s Free At Linux Academy June 2019

Linux Academy

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.

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Four Attributes of Openness in Modern Communications

CTOvision

I posit that there are four key attributes that define openness in this context: documented, standardized, open sourced and inclusive. A Beginning of Openness – Documented and Supported. SMTP was originally defined by the IETF in RFC 821 as a standard for e-mail transmission across Internet Protocol (IP) networks.

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Geek of the Week: Tech vet Dick Hardt searches for a better way to verify your ?internet identity?

GeekWire

Dick Hardt has often been “early to the new,” as he puts it: Microsoft Windows in 1986, neural networks in 1989, the internet in 1993, open source in 1995, and even Burning Man in 1999. “The internet does not have an identity layer,” said Hardt, our latest Geek of the Week. Mac, Windows or Linux?

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The Linux Migration: April 2017 Progress Report

Scott Lowe

In December 2016, I kicked off a migration to Linux (from OS X) as my primary laptop OS. Let me start by saying that I am actively using a Linux-powered laptop as my primary laptop right now, and I have been doing so since early February. Linux Distribution. I’m using Enpass on my OS X, Linux, and iOS devices.

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Cloud Playground for Beginners: Navigating your first Server

Linux Academy

Welcome to Linux Academy’s Cloud Playground! Used basic Linux commands on that server. For example, on Windows, if you just downloaded something from the internet — like a file — you would navigate to your Downloads folder to retrieve that file. We’re going to download a file from the internet. That’s not very nice.

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Using Secure Configurations | Standardize Your Security

Linux Academy

Our friends at the Center for Internet Security (CIS) listed “Secure Configurations” as the No. For workstations and servers, we need a standard build sheet to document each step in the process. Red Hat offers OpenSCAP , can be used to scan Linux hosts for compliance but doesn’t scan Windows hosts.

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Free Courses at Linux Academy — September 2019

Linux Academy

To continually support you in your mission to learn and grow we are always adding new courses and free resources to begin developing your Linux and Cloud skills. Courses Free in September: Microsoft SQL Server On Linux Quick Start. Linux Networking and Trouble Shooting. Network Routing Fundamentals. Git Quick Start.

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