Become a certified Linux professional

Find out how to start and advance your career in open source.

Learn more

Hire only certified Linux professionals

Find out why hiring only certified professionals is good for your business.

Learn more

Get your free Learning Materials!

Our Learning Materials serve as preparation for our exams and are continuously expanded and updated.

Discover learning.lpi.org

Our response to COVID-19

In order to slow down the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus), policies around the world have been enacted that may affect your ability to take Linux Professional Institute (LPI) exams or renew your certification status. Because your health and safety are most important, we are making some temporary changes to our policies to reduce the impact on our community.

Read more

How to advance your open source career

Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is the global certification standard and career support organization for open source professionals. With more than 200,000 certification holders, it's the world’s first and largest vendor-neutral Linux and open source certification body. LPI has certified professionals in over 180 countries, delivers exams in multiple languages, and has hundreds of training partners.

IT certifications and what they can do for you.

Learn more

Find out which certification is right for you.

Learn more

Check out our study and exam resources.

Learn more

Get involved. Join the LPI community.

Events
March 10, 2022

April 26 - 27, 2022 Join Linux Professional Institute (LPI) East Africa Conference on Open Source (EACOS), taking place virtu... Read more

News
 

March 30, 2022: Linux Professional Institute (LPI) announces the availability of the Web Development Essentials program. T... Read more

Blog
Vircadia Pushes Open Source Ahead in the Metaverse

April 5, 2022: VR, AR, and virtual worlds have been a major focus of the computer industry for some time, spawning many expensive devices ... Read more

Regional Support and Offices

LPI works with organizations around the world to ensure the growth and adoption of Linux, open source and Free Software. This... Learn more

Preparing for your exam

Here you can find everything you may need to prepare for you LPI certification.

Learn more

Success stories

... Learn more

The most interesting projects in the world run on Linux.

Join the community of Linux professionals who are making incredible things happen with Linux and open source around the world.

Linux runs everywhere at SpaceX

SpaceX as a company strongly believes in making humans into multi-planetary species. A mars colony is the goal, but in order to get there you need rockets and spaceships” - Robert Rose, Lead for the avionics flight software team at SpaceX

U.S. Air Traffic Control relies on Linux

Because Linux is the most reliable when unreliability isn’t an option.

The Internet Archive runs on Linux

The Internet Archive uses hundreds of x86 servers to catalogue the internet, with all of them running Linux.

International space station ditches Windows for Linux

“We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable” - Keith Chuvala, United Space Alliance

NASA’s Curiosity Rover is remotely controlled with a Linux computer

Linux is preferred amongst scientists on earth, so it’s not surprising it’s preferred on Mars.

Hollywood runs on Linux

It's hard to find a large studio that doesn’t rely on Linux as its primary animation and special effects OS

Thanks to our corporate sponsors for all their support.

Would you like to become a sponsor? Contact us