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.
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- IBM Launches Compact z17 and LinuxONE Systems to Address Data Center Space and Cost Constraints - IBM Newsroom
- Alpha Compute CEO Brittany Kaiser speaks at confidential AI summit - Stock Titan
- Advanced Micro Devices Retreats After a 7% Rally: Can the Linux CIQ Partnership Keep AMD Competitive? - 24/7 Wall St.
- Why GoDaddy (GDDY) Stock Is Up Today - StockStory
- OpenClaw Is Just as Important as HTML, Linux, and ChatGPT: Jensen Huang Bets That Agentic AI Will Transform NVDA Stock - Yahoo Finance
- Stocks making big moves yesterday: GoDaddy, Micron, AMN Healthcare Services, Tesla, and Broadcom - theglobeandmail.com
- NVIDIA's New Job Postings Reveal A Big Push To Boost Gaming Performance On Linux - HotHardware
- Micware, Automotive Software and Navigation Provider, Files for NASDAQ IPO - tradingview.com
- Open‑Source Layer Brings NVIDIA Reflex and AMD Anti‑Lag 2 to Any GPU on Linux - HotHardware
- New York Stock Exchange Runs Trades On Red Hat Linux - InformationWeek
- This Week in Open Source News: Blockchain Tech Can Help Ease the Refugee Experience, Nasdaq to Provide OSS Platform, & More - Linux Foundation
- CyberArk Helps Modernize Identity and Access Management for Linux Machines With New Identity Bridge Capability - Business Wire
- NVIDIA, Industry Giants Form Open Secure AI Alliance - Investing News Network
- 📈 Cerebras and the IPO pop - exponentialview.co
- OpenMama and AMQP: Open Collaboration in Action - Linux Foundation
- Voyager and Red Hat Propel Red Hat Enterprise Linux into Orbit with Space Edge Micro Datacenters - Business Wire
- Intel Job Cuts Feared To Deliver A Critical Blow To Future Linux Projects - HotHardware
- Alibaba, DCHQ, MediaTek, PayPal and Wuhan Deepin Technology Join Linux Foundation - Linux Foundation
- China Mobile Joins Linux Foundation as Gold Member - Linux Foundation
- Intel Alder Lake Benchmark Battle Pits Windows 11 Vs Linux With Surprising Results - HotHardware
- Digi International Announces FIPS 140-3 Validation for Cryptographic Security on Digi Accelerated Linux-Based Solutions - Business Wire
- CrowdStrike Falcon expands Linux protection with enhanced prevention capabilities - ITWeb
- BSV joins Linux Foundation to advance open standards - CoinGeek
- Jensen Huang Just Revealed Nvidia’s Real Endgame - And the Risk It Creates for U.S. AI Leadership - 24/7 Wall St.
- Google Chrome Is Finally Getting Native ARM64 Support On Linux - HotHardware
- Intel Alder Lake Benchmarks Show Linux Running Circles Around Windows 11 - HotHardware
- NVIDIA Brings GeForce NOW To Linux And Fire TV With RTX 5080‑Class Cloud Gaming - HotHardware
- AMD Radeon Linux Driver Hints At Incoming Integer Scaling Feature - HotHardware
- Microsoft Will Deliver Linux GUI App Support To Windows 10 With WSL2 - HotHardware
- 12 Things You See Every Day That Wouldn't Exist Without Linux - businessinsider.com
- AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Benchmark Battle Pits Windows 11 Against Ubuntu Linux - HotHardware
- PEAK:AIO and Los Alamos National Laboratory Launch Lattice - GlobeNewswire
- Intel Thread Director Is Headed To Linux For A Major Boost In Alder Lake Performance - HotHardware
- Digi International Announces FIPS 140-2 Validation for Cryptographic Security on All Digi Accelerated Linux Based Solutions - Business Wire
- 12 Unexpected Things That Exist Because Of Linux - businessinsider.com
- Opera GX finally lands on Linux with RAM limiters, VPN and ad blockers - PPC Land
- Microsoft already patched KRACK WPA2 vulnerability - Software - News - HEXUS.net
- Prediction: 1 Stock That'll Be Worth More Than Oracle 5 Years From Now - The Motley Fool
- SCO Group gets the boot from Nasdaq - cnet.com
- AMD Zen 6 Takes A Page From Intel With New Low-Power Cores - HotHardware
- AI Simulation Leader Cosmo Tech Appoints Andre M. Boisvert as Lead Independent Director - Business Wire
- Decentralized Chip Design: Miners reclaiming hardware control - CoinGeek
- Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) And Tech Giants Push For Open-Weight AI As Washington Eyes Chinese Model Restrictions - foreignpolicyjournal.com
- Google Will Enable Android Phones With Ability To Run Debian Linux Soon - HotHardware
- Penguin Solutions (NASDAQ: PENG) offers Oracle Linux on ztC Endurance, 99.99999% uptime - Stock Titan
- SUSE and Industry Leaders Deliver Secure Agentic AI for Infrastructure Management - GlobeNewswire
- VA Linux Registers A 698% Price Pop - WSJ
- Bill Gates Finally Meets Linux Creator Linus Torvalds At Microsoft Exec's Dinner, Decades After Powering Rival Operating Systems - Sahm
- Gloves off in NYSE: Red Hat trading tech face-off - The Register
- Latest Release of Stratus’ Linux-Based Fault Tolerance and Virtualization Software Increases Edge Infrastructure Capabilities - Business Wire
- AMD Vega 20 XGMI GPU-to-GPU Interconnect Spied In Linux Driver Patch - HotHardware
- This PS5 Linux Tool Turns Sony's Console Into a Linux-Powered Gaming PC - HotHardware
- Ticker Is A Terminal Stock Watcher And Position Tracker (With Cryptocurrency Support) - linuxuprising.com
- LLNXF Price History for Link Linux Stock - Barchart.com
- Review: Running Linux on the PS3 - A detailed view of what's out there - HEXUS.net
- IBM Closes Landmark Acquisition of Red Hat for $34 Billion - Egypt Today
- Investors flock to tech stocks with "the Linux effect" - CBC
- Salesforce Standardises Global Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Techeconomy
- Review: Running Linux on the PS3 - A detailed view of what's out there - HEXUS.net
- Review: Running Linux on the PS3 - A detailed view of what's out there - HEXUS.net
- Did You Know? 13 Amazing Facts About Linux That Will Surprise You - Fossbytes
- BlackRock warns that quantum computing is coming for your crypto - Mugglehead Investment Magazine
- BUSINESS | Linux shares rocket - BBC
- “A Step Change in How Silicon…Will Get Built in the Future.” Intel Stock (NASDAQ:INTC) Gains With Plans to Assist Terafab - TipRanks
- Intel Stock (NASDAQ:INTC) Plummets, AVX-512 Support Returning - TipRanks

- 18-Year-Old Linux SCTP Flaw Could Let Local Users Gain Root and Escape Containers - The Hacker News
- Linux Use Skyrockets as It Becomes ‘OS of Choice for AI Agents’ - cnet.com
- HWMON Fixes For Linux 7.2-rc7: "Most Of Them Fixing Critical Or High Severity Bugs" - Phoronix
- This Filesystem Is Born To Fail - Hackaday
- I spent 15 years memorizing terminal commands the hard way—here’s what actually works - How-To Geek
- Desktop Linux just cracked 10% market share - and Windows 11 is mostly to blame - ZDNET
- Tired of waiting for Microsoft? This Linux developer built his own native Copilot app. - windowscentral.com
- Windows added a feature Linux users have had for decades — and most people still don't know it's there - MakeUseOf
- New Debian 13 Kernel Security Update Fixes "Zapscape" and "SCTPhantom" - 9to5linux.com
- Linux gaming got so big that even GOG couldn't ignore it anymore - XDA
- Linux loads my apps faster than Windows, so I calculated just how much time it saves me every year - How-To Geek
- This free tool runs Windows apps on the Linux I already have — and it's not Wine - MakeUseOf
- Linux 7.3 To Better Handle Cluster Load Balancing On Intel Hybrid CPUs - Phoronix
- Critical Linux SCTP Flaw Enables Root Access and Container Escape - LinkedIn
- Linux Foundation Launches the Tokenomics Foundation to Define the Economics and ROI of AI Value - Linux Foundation
- Hold up. Is the year of Linux actually happening? - PCWorld
- RefluXFS: A Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation to Root in XFS (CVE-2026-64600) - Qualys
- My first Linux experience was born out of necessity instead of curiosity, and that made all the difference - XDA
- New AMD P-State Patch Delivers Major Linux Gaming Performance Boost - Linux Journal
- New OVSwrap Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Users Gain Root via Open vSwitch - The Hacker News
- I failed to install the "most difficult" Linux distro but here's why I'm sticking with it - How-To Geek
- Proposing the SAFE Working Group: An Open Community Effort to Improve AI Security - Linux Foundation
- No, Linux didn’t actually hit 10% market share. Blame bots - PCWorld
- Linux 7.2-rc7 Adding Support For The Most Unique Or Very Funky Gaming Controller - Phoronix
- The only 5 Linux distros I recommend for laptops—after 10 years of using Linux - How-To Geek
- New Zapscape KVM Flaw Could Let Privileged L1 Guest Code Escape to Linux Hosts - The Hacker News
- Qualcomm Proposes Synx For The Linux Kernel With "Significant" Power + Performance Benefits - Phoronix
- Additional Old Linux Drivers Face Removal Due To Noise From AI/LLM Coding Agents - Phoronix
- 3 reasons I'm quitting Arch Linux—after using it for 5 years - How-To Geek
- Polychromatic 0.9.8 Released With Razer Blade 16 2023 Support - Phoronix
- Proton Experimental gets fixes for Far Cry 5, Nightingale, Lords of The Fallen, various Command & Conquer games - GamingOnLinux
- Linux Foundation Announces Key Industry Support for Linux Vendor Firmware Service - PR Newswire
- Linux 7.2-rc6 Released: "This RC Is Huge" - Phoronix
- Linux Patched For Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability - Phoronix
- Linux Accidentally Left Legacy I/O & Memory Handlers Open In Kernel Lockdown Mode - Phoronix
- Open Models and Open Weights Are Foundational to Secure AI - Linux Foundation
- Linux 7.3 To Support Logitech HID++ 2.0 Reprogrammable Button Support - Phoronix
- Linux 7.3 Looks Like It Will Upstream FailFS - Phoronix
- I let Claude customize my Linux PC—and it did a better job than I ever could - How-To Geek
- Initial Apple M3 Pro / Max / Ultra Support Being Upstreamed For Linux 7.3 - Phoronix
- Linux 7.3 To Begin Laying The Groundwork For Intel Starfire - Phoronix
- TTM Memory Management For Graphics To Be More Aggresive With Linux 7.3 - Phoronix
- NVIDIA 610.57.04 Linux Driver Delivers Many Fixes - Phoronix
- Apple NVMe Linux Driver Sees Fixes After Being Bitten By New Firmware - Phoronix
- Linux Kernel Begins Phasing Out the crypto_rng Layer to Simplify Random Number Generation - Linux Journal
- Intel resumes HDMI 2.1 FRL work for Linux, 4K 120Hz already works on Meteor Lake and Panther Lake - VideoCardz.com
- After Nearly a Decade of Distro Hopping, I Realized It Was Never About the Distro - It's FOSS
- Why some tech users are ditching Android for Linux phones - Northeast Times
- Intel Makes Progress On HDMI 2.1 FRL With Their Linux Driver For Meteor Lake & Newer - Phoronix
- 4 reasons why Linux will be king in 2027 - How-To Geek
- New TONTOU CPU attack bypasses Spectre v2 fixes, leaks Linux password hashes - BleepingComputer
- Linux Wireless Maintainer Takes Firm Stance Against AI/LLM Generated Slop Patches - Phoronix
- HyperX Driver Coming For Linux 7.3 Just To Report A Microphone's Mute Status - Phoronix
- SUSE Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities - Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre
- Have an Intel Mac or Old Windows PC? Revive It With One of These 20 Fun DIY Projects - PCMag
- Mistfall Hunter is a new extraction ARPG that works on SteamOS / Linux - GamingOnLinux
- Zapscape Is The Latest Linux Vulnerability For KVM Guest-To-Host Escape, LPE - Phoronix
- Page Alloc Hogger Lets You Better Stress Memory Behavior On Linux For Testing/Debugging - Phoronix
- Linux 7.3 To Fix Longstanding Gap In The Native Driver For Original Steam Controller - Phoronix
- Linux Foundation Announces Operational Launch of x402 Foundation to Standardize Internet-Native Payments for AI Agents and Applications - Linux Foundation
- AMD Updates HDMI 2.1 VRR & ALLM Patches But Will Miss Out On Linux 7.3 - Phoronix
- New Interrupt Injection Attack Can Bypass Spectre v2 Defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs - The Hacker News
- Linux To Avoid Confusing Processor Firmware With Newer Intel CPUs Sporting DEC - Phoronix
- My Linux PC was sluggish for no obvious reason—Claude helped me revive it - How-To Geek
- NordVPN gives Linux users a major upgrade with automatic GUI app installation - TechRadar
- Researcher Says AI Helped Develop Linux Traffic-Control Race Into Root Exploit - The Hacker News
- AMD Posts Proposal & Linux Patches For eSPI Subsystem - Phoronix
- OVSwrap: 13-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Users Become Root - Security Affairs
- NordVPN Download & Linux CLI Setup Guide [2026] - tech-insider.org
- AerynOS 2026.08 Released with Linux 7.1, GNOME 50.3, COSMIC 1.5, and More - 9to5linux.com
- These 5 lightweight Linux distros make Windows feel so bloated - How-To Geek
- Steam Machine with SteamOS Linux - initial thoughts - GamingOnLinux
- SCTPhantom Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Attackers Gain Root and Escape Containers - cyberpress.org
- Arch Linux pulls the plug on all AUR uploads, dozens of malicious packages detected - Cybernews
- 7 things nobody tells you about dual booting Linux and Windows - How-To Geek
- Need to run Windows or Android apps on Linux? This new release makes it easy - ZDNET
- Framework Laptop 13 Pro Review: The Best Linux Laptop Ever - Gizmodo
- After a decade on Windows, I finally understand why Linux users never go back - MakeUseOf
- OVSwrap vulnerability allows local privilege escalation on Linux - SC Media
- Want a free Photoshop alternative on Linux? How to get Affinity today: 2 ways - ZDNET
- Linux Foundation and Industry Leaders Launch Akrites to Defend Critical Open Source Software Against AI-Enabled Cyber Threats - Linux Foundation
- Linux promises freedom from Windows, but it demands something harder in return - How-To Geek
- Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Launch Agent Name Service to Establish Trusted Identity Infrastructure for AI Agents - Linux Foundation
- Linux 7.2-rc4 Released: Looking Like The "New Normal" - Phoronix
- Linux App Release Roundup (July 2026) - OMG! Ubuntu
- Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls sees mixed Steam rating due to litany of technical problems - PC Gamer
- Your favorite Linux distro probably descends from one of these three operating systems - MakeUseOf
- Google Chrome arrives on Arm64 Linux, Widevine DRM included - OMG! Ubuntu
- Linux Copy Fail Flaw: CVSS 7.8, Root in Seconds [2026] - tech-insider.org
- Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days - The Register
- Linux Desktop Market Share Surge Past 10% May Be AI Bot Driven - HotHardware
- Benchmarking Six Linux Distributions On The Framework Laptop 13 Pro Review - Phoronix
- I automated my Galaxy phone, and it saves me more time than Samsung's last 3 updates combined - How-To Geek
- Linux 7.2-rc5 Released: "Once More We Have Quite A Massive -rc5" - Phoronix
- NVIDIA Joins Dell and HP in Supporting the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) - 9to5linux.com
- SteelSeries' Latest Arctis Nova 5X & Nova 7 Headsets To Be Supported By Linux 7.3 - Phoronix
- Linux 7.3 To Fix MSI Claw M-Center Keys For Ryzen Z2 Extreme Powered Handheld - Phoronix
- I got a free Mini PC, and TurnKey Linux made it a cloud-backed NAS - MakeUseOf
- KDE Linux Making For Easier First-Run Experience Of Java & DOS Apps - Phoronix
- Nobody Touched This Linux Driver for Years, Until AI Started Poking Around and It Got Removed - It's FOSS