Linux in Dallas/Fort Worth

North Lake College
Uses Linux as part of the Open Source Technology (OST@NLC) certificate program. The core of the OST program consists of LAMP, with other courses that address more general open source issues. We use a number of distros in our Open Source Lab, depending upon the class being offered.
We both teach and utilize Linux at various levels. Although we have several servers using Linux, we are not a strong user of it. We do use several Unix systems, and of course the other OS.

L3 Link Simulation
Uses Linux on software development workstations and also as embedded systems pretty much throughout the range of flight simulation products. We sell systems containing 40 or more Linux PC's acting as a gigantic 3D graphics 'render farm' that drive batteries of video projectors or laser display systems. We also have simulators that fit into trucks that can be air-lifted into the field for mission rehearsal purposes. We develop on RedHat/Fedora and SuSE - we deliver on our own Linux distro that's loosely based around Gentoo.
Almost all of the Sterling Commerce software product line is supported on Linux (x86 and zSeries). Internally Linux is used for software development and testing as well as some very key infrastructure roles. We support our products on Red Hat Enterprise and SUSE Linux Enterprise. Internally we use OpenSUSE and some CentOS.

Presco
Presco is a marking and films product manufacturing company in Sherman, TX. Presco uses Linux for most of their key infrastructure needs, including accounting, name services, email, printing and file storage.
Uses mostly Red Hat Linux in key infrastructure areas including accounting, email and file storage services.

Lockheed Martin
Uses Linux for running large scale digital simulations, computational fluid dynamics and various hydrocodes. A few people are figuring out that applications like Matlab/Simulink run faster on Linux than Windows and are migrating to Linux. We have several desktop Linux users.
A division of Salem Communications Company (which owns KLTY, KWRD, and KSKY) uses Linux quite a bit. They are in the process of converting their broadcast automation computers to Linux, running the Rivendell Open Source automation program, which was developed by Salem Radio Labs. These systems will control the programming being sent over eleven satellite networks. Linux machines are also used for audio editing and controlling telephone screening equipment.
Uses Linux to troubleshoot and help fix computer systems, including ailing Windows installations. Also uses Linux for mail services using QmailToaster and uses Xen on Gentoo.
Linux Business in the News
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- Infosys Partners With Linux Foundation To Advance Responsible AI In Networking - Nasdaq
- Automox Launches Real-Time Linux CVE Data to Outpace NVD Delays - GlobeNewswire
- This Game-Changing Linux Security Tool Just Made System Authentication 10x Easier - Stock Titan
- Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Boosts Linux Driver Support Ahead of Launch of Versal2 Evaluation Kits for AI-Driven Embedded Systems - Yahoo Finance
- Akamai Delivers Infrastructure Support to Ensure Uninterrupted Linux Kernel Development - Quantisnow
- Infosys and Linux Foundation Networking Collaborate to Strengthen Responsible AI for Global Networks - The Globe and Mail
- BSV joins Linux Foundation to advance open standards - CoinGeek
- Nvidia Teams Up With MediaTek to Challenge Intel and AMD in Desktop CPU Market - Yahoo Finance
- Intel Slips Battlemage Support And Power-Saving Features Into Linux 6.11 - HotHardware
- Open Source History: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of VA Linux - Channel Futures
- Digi International Announces Expanded Support for Linux and Windows with Digi AnywhereUSB® Plus - Business Wire
- Elon Musk Suggests Shifting 'Consumer Desktops To Linux' As Satya Nadella Promotes Microsoft's New Windows AI Feature 'Recall' With Photographic Memory - Benzinga
- Nasdaq hits 5,000 for the first time since 2000 - Los Angeles Times
- VA Linux: The Linux Company That Once Ruled NASDAQ - It's FOSS
- Advanced Hypervisor Security for VMware, Nutanix and All Other Linux-Based Hypervisors, Powered by Vali Cyber - Business Wire
- Datavault AI Slashes Audio Integration Time 83% Through Game-Changing Dolby Partnership - Stock Titan
- Stratus Releases Linux-based Virtualization for ftServer Platforms - Business Wire
- Datavault AI Signs Interoperability License Agreement with Dolby - Business Wire
- MariaDB Completes Merger and Lands on NYSE as “MRDB” - Business Wire
- You Can Track Stock Market Data From Your Terminal - HackerNoon
- AI Simulation Leader Cosmo Tech Appoints Andre M. Boisvert as Lead Independent Director - Business Wire
- Intel Stock (NASDAQ:INTC) Gains, Earnings Outlook May Be “Useless” - The Globe and Mail
- Akamai to host kernel.org, bolstering Linux development - Investing.com
- How N-able's CMMC 2.0 Readiness Plan Could Transform Government IT Services - Stock Titan
- SUSE Stock Price | Stock Quote, News, and History - markets.businessinsider.com
- What's Going On With Dell Technologies Stock? - TradingView
- SentinelOne Achieves Perfect Score in MITRE ATT&CK Tests: 100% Detection Rate with 88% Less Noise - Stock Titan
- LatticeFlow Appoints Global Technology Executive, Andre Boisvert, As Chairman of The Board - The Recursive
- Red Hat Earnings: Amazon A Threat In Linux Landscape? - Investor's Business Daily
- Microsoft Stock Price Poised for 14% Lift from Cloud (Nasdaq: MSFT) - Money Morning
- How ECARX's New Tech Deal Could Transform Your Future Volkswagen Experience - Stock Titan
- Microsoft's Windows Faces a New Threat From an Old Enemy - Yahoo Finance
- Easily Monitor Stock Prices with these GNOME Extensions - OMG! Ubuntu
- Red Hat Achieves Common Criteria Security Certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 - Bobsguide
- CrowdStrike Falcon expands Linux protection with enhanced prevention capabilities - ITWeb
- 12 Unexpected Things That Exist Because Of Linux - Business Insider
- Markets: An Open-Source App to Keep Track of Your Investments for Linux Desktop and Phones - It's FOSS
- Intel Alder Lake Benchmark Battle Pits Windows 11 Vs Linux With Surprising Results - HotHardware
- VA Linux Registers A 698% Price Pop - WSJ
- Microsoft Previews Defender ATP For Linux, Official Release Just Days Away - HotHardware
- The Easiest Way to Pull Stock Data into your Python Program: yfinance - Towards Data Science
- Infosys (INFY) Advances Responsible AI in Networking Through Linux Foundation Partnership - Insider Monkey
- Microsoft Will Deliver Linux GUI App Support To Windows 10 With WSL2 - HotHardware
- Electra Meccanica (NASDAQ: SOLO) Soars Over 50 Percent Following the Recent Surge in the Share Prices of Nikola and Tesla - Wccftech
- Intel Is Adding A Feature To Its Arc GPUs That Will Delight Linux Gamers - HotHardware
- AMD's New Linux Driver Teases Possible Launch For Radeon RX 8000 RDNA 4 GPUs - HotHardware
- VA Linux -- Easy Come, Easy Go / Stock's dramatic rise and fall leave determined workers unfazed - SFGATE
- AMD Radeon Linux Driver Hints At Incoming Integer Scaling Feature - HotHardware
- 12 Things You See Every Day That Wouldn't Exist Without Linux - Business Insider
- AMD's Next Gen Navi GPU Architecture Found Referenced In Linux Drivers - HotHardware
- AMD Vega 20 XGMI GPU-to-GPU Interconnect Spied In Linux Driver Patch - HotHardware
- Intel Comet Lake-S 10-Core, 20-Thread CPU Leaked In Linux Driver Update - HotHardware
- Elon Musk Rejects Rumors Of A Tesla Phone, But Says The EV Giant Will Have To Make One If This Happens - Benzinga
- 'Almost the entire employee base...': Zerodha's Nithin Kamath on how his firm survived the 'Blue Screen of Death' - Business Today
- 1999: Year of the IPO - CNN
- BUSINESS | Linux shares rocket - BBC
- Ticker Is A Terminal Stock Watcher And Position Tracker (With Cryptocurrency Support) - linuxuprising.com
- Profit From the Rising Importance of Linux Software - Investment U
- Did You Know? 13 Amazing Facts About Linux That Will Surprise You - Fossbytes
- How to Monitor Stock Prices from Ubuntu Command Line Using Mop - Make Tech Easier

- Linux 'io_uring' security blindspot allows stealthy rootkit attacks - BleepingComputer
- Linux 6.15 Lands Fix For "3x Performance Regression" Affecting Nginx & Other Software - Phoronix
- How to set up remote desktop access on your Linux computers - ZDNET
- Linux io_uring PoC Rootkit Bypasses System Call-Based Threat Detection Tools - The Hacker News
- 5 cool distros that every Linux expert needs to try out - XDA
- 9 Linux Gaming Myths That Just Won't Die - How-To Geek
- Intel Core Ultra 9 285K performance sees 6% improvement on Linux — Arrow Lake boosts even without new '200S Boost' BIOS - Tom's Hardware
- How to stay on Windows 10 instead of installing Linux - theregister.com
- OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 Released with Linux 6.14, KDE Plasma 6.3, and Server Edition - 9to5Linux
- Hackers can now bypass Linux security thanks to terrifying new Curing rootkit - BetaNews
- I'm a Linux power user, and this distro made me rethink what an operating system can be - ZDNET
- Linux 6.15 Fixes A Performance Issue For Extremely Heavy Read-Only Workloads - Phoronix
- Linux systems vulnerable to a new rootkit invisible to security solutions - Cybernews
- Frostrail from the devs of Barotrauma 'eager' to support Linux with a 'tentative yes' - GamingOnLinux
- Lenovo Cuts the Windows Tax and offers Cheaper Laptops with Linux Pre-installed - It's FOSS News
- Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Can Work Well As A Solid Linux Laptop Review - Phoronix
- 6 Reasons to Try Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) - How-To Geek
- NVIDIA disclose new security flaw in their Linux GPU drivers - GamingOnLinux
- New Patches Get Linux Booting On The Snapdragon X1-Powered Dell Inspiron 14 Plus - Phoronix
- New to Linux? Don't try these 7 distros (yet) - ZDNET
- PCIe Controller Support For The Apple M2 Pro Coming To The Mainline Linux Kernel - Phoronix
- The 4 VPNs I swear by for Linux - and why I trust them - ZDNET
- Raspberry Pi HEVC Decoder Linux Driver Updated For Mainline Kernel Attempt - Phoronix
- Linux 6.15-rc3 Released With GCC 15 Build Fixes, Intel Bartlett Lake & Zen 5 Check - Phoronix
- These 6 lightweight Linux apps let older PCs run blazing fast - ZDNET
- Miss old-school Linux? This distro will take you back to the early 2000s - ZDNET
- If you're ready to pull the plug on Windows, I found an ideal Linux distro for new users - ZDNET
- EU OS: A European Proposal for a Public Sector Linux Desktop - The New Stack
- The 5 Linux AppImages I depend on daily - and how to add them to your desktop menu - ZDNET
- My Linux Install Took 8 Hours Because I Missed This Simple Fix - How-To Geek
- Powerful Mini-PCs Provide Efficient Replacement for Desktop Computers - LinuxInsider
- My two favorite AI apps on Linux - and how I use them to get more done - ZDNET
- Why I Dual-Boot But Choose Linux Over Windows Almost Every Time - How-To Geek
- With Android 16, the Linux terminal gets all the space it needs - ZDNET
- Android 16 lets the Linux Terminal use your phone's entire storage - Android Authority
- Why Installing Linux Is the Perfect Earth Day Activity - How-To Geek
- Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Performance On Linux Has Improved A Lot Since Launch Review - Phoronix
- 5 things to do with the Linux terminal on your Android phone - including my favorite - ZDNET
- Chinese Hackers Deploy SNOWLIGHT and VShell in Linux Intrusions - MSSP Alert
- Linux 6.15 Git Tanked Nginx HTTPS Web Server Performance - Here's The Bisect Review - Phoronix
- AMD Posts Open-Source Linux Patches For Pensando RDMA Driver - Phoronix
- CachyOS Linux Distribution Makes More Improvements To Its Handheld Edition - Phoronix
- MX Linux 23.6 brings Debian freshness, without the systemd funk - theregister.com
- Linux Patch Queued To Report Outdated Intel CPU Microcode As A Vulnerability - Phoronix
- Rogue npm Packages Mimic Telegram Bot API to Plant SSH Backdoors on Linux Systems - The Hacker News
- Best Linux distros for reviving an old PC - Tom's Hardware
- Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure - theregister.com
- Linux Being Patched For Buggy MWAIT Behavior On Intel Ice Lake Servers - Phoronix
- Intel Posts Newest Code For Cache Aware Scheduling On Linux - Phoronix
- Linux Fu: Stopping A Runaway - Hackaday
- How to start using the new Linux terminal on your Android device - ZDNET
- Chinese Hackers Target Linux Systems Using SNOWLIGHT Malware and VShell Tool - The Hacker News
- Download & Unzip Files Without Leaving the Linux Terminal With These 6 Commands - How-To Geek
- Need a Linux admin? Ask a hair stylist to introduce you to a worried mother - theregister.com
- I tried gaming on Linux — and it's better (and worse) than you think - Tom's Guide
- Why I Don't Use Linux on My Desktop PC - How-To Geek
- Malicious npm Packages Target Linux Developers with SSH Backdoor Attacks - GBHackers News
- Survivor-like bullet hell with random maps FIENDRISE adds Linux support - GamingOnLinux
- Forget Windows 11. These mad lads made Linux look like Windows XP! - pcworld.com
- Nitrux, a Debian-Based Linux Distro With Modern Apps - The New Stack
- Linux 6.15-rc3 Released With Key Kernel Bug Fixes - GBHackers News
- This SteamOS clone is the best Linux distro for gamers - ZDNET
- Google Lifts Storage Limit for Linux Terminal on Pixel Phones: 16 GB to Infinity Minus 1GB - Yahoo
- Kmemdump Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Help With Memory Dumping & Debugging - Phoronix
- 5 amazing Linux distros that are better than Windows, but you should avoid as a beginner - XDA
- New BPFDoor Controller Enables Stealthy Lateral Movement in Linux Server Attacks - The Hacker News
- No Linux for old men — ArcoLinux reaches the end of the line - BetaNews
- Open source AI is the new Linux, only faster - TechSpot
- New FWCTL Subsystem Submitted For Linux 6.15 - Phoronix
- NVIDIA 575.51.02 Linux Driver Beta Released With Smooth Motion Support - Phoronix
- Experts Uncover New XorDDoS Controller, Infrastructure as Malware Expands to Docker, Linux, IoT - The Hacker News
- The latest Ubuntu is great news for Linux fans everywhere - Tom's Hardware
- Linux Kernel 6.13 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.14 - 9to5Linux
- Install Linux on your old PC to save it from the landfill this Earth Day - BetaNews
- Linux Terminal for Beginners: How to Install and Remove Software - How-To Geek
- Patches Hoping For The Upstream Kernel Finally Provide Google Pixel 4a Support - Phoronix
- A retro goodie rebuilt from 1994, Ironseed 25th Anniversary Edition recently added Linux support - GamingOnLinux
- Underwater PvP shooter Tidal Shock 1.0 out now with Linux / Steam Deck support - it's also now free to play - GamingOnLinux
- Ubuntu 25.04 vs. Windows 11 CPU Performance For The AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 Review - Phoronix
- FOSS Weekly #25.17: Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 Release Follow-ups, Logseq, ZimaBoard and More - It's FOSS
- Intel Lunar Lake On Linux Can Roughly Match Windows 11 Xe2 Graphics - When Not Stuck At 400MHz - Phoronix
- Linux 6.15-rc3 To Bring AMD Zen 5 Microcode Protection, Intel Bartlett Lake ID Addition - Phoronix
- Parallels Desktop 20.3 Brings Linux VM Fixes to Mac Users - OMG! Ubuntu
- As the Kernel Turns: Rust in Linux saga reaches the “Linus in all-caps” phase - Ars Technica
- Fedora 42 Released As A Fantastic Update To This Leading-Edge Linux Distribution - Phoronix
- Intel’s new Linux graphics driver finally allows full memory use (performance jumps 43%) - Journée Mondiale
- Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades halted due to Kubuntu users getting a broken desktop - GamingOnLinux
- I installed Linux on an 8-inch mini laptop - and it's my new favorite way of computing - ZDNET
- 6 Linux applications and tools that prevent me from ever switching back to Windows - XDA
- # Linux bug fix recovers 30% performance, critical for cars using kernel-based infotainment (what Tesla competitors need to know) - Journée Mondiale
- Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 gets OEM support — does that signal the impending death of Ubuntu-based Mint? - BetaNews
- I ditched Windows 11 for Linux — and you should, too - Laptop Mag
- Slightly Faster AES-XTS Performance For AVX-512 CPUs Expected With Linux 6.16 - Phoronix
- How do I prompt for Yes/No/Cancel input in a Linux shell script? | by Harold Finch | Apr, 2025 - Medium
- These 5 Companies Make Linux-First PCs - How-To Geek
- Linux 6.15-rc3 Released With Fix for Multiple Kernel Fixes - CybersecurityNews
- How to install Ubuntu Server in under 30 minutes - ZDNET
- New Ubuntu Linux security bypasses require manual mitigations - BleepingComputer
- SCALE 1.3 Adds BFloat16 & Other New Features For Compiling CUDA Apps On AMD GPUs - Phoronix
- I'm a Linux power user and this distro has the most refreshing take on OS design - ZDNET