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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- F5 Unveils Critical FIPS Security Solution on AWS: New Red Hat Integration Transforms Federal Compliance - Stock Titan
- F5 Secures Sensitive Data and Streamlines Compliance with New FIPS Offering on Red Hat Enterprise Linux | FFIV Stock News - GuruFocus
- Infosys and Linux Foundation Networking Collaborate to Strengthen Responsible AI for Global Networks - PR Newswire
- Infosys Partners With Linux Foundation To Advance Responsible AI In Networking - Nasdaq
- CyberArk Helps Modernize Identity and Access Management for Linux Machines With New Identity Bridge Capability - Business Wire
- Akamai Delivers Infrastructure Support to Ensure Uninterrupted Linux Kernel Development – Company Announcement - Financial Times
- BSV joins Linux Foundation to advance open standards - CoinGeek
- Infosys (INFY) Advances Responsible AI in Networking Through Linux Foundation Partnership - Insider Monkey
- Akamai to host kernel.org, bolstering Linux development By Investing.com - Investing.com India
- Open Source History: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of VA Linux - Channel Futures
- Nasdaq hits 5,000 for the first time since 2000 - Los Angeles Times
- Opera (NASDAQ:OPRA): Underrated AI Stock Yielding Over 5% - Yahoo Finance
- Ticker Is A Terminal Stock Watcher And Position Tracker (With Cryptocurrency Support) - linuxuprising.com
- VA Linux: The Linux Company That Once Ruled NASDAQ - It's FOSS
- Cybercriminals Target Linux-Based Systems With Ransomware and Cryptojacking Attacks - Broadcom
- Easily Monitor Stock Prices with these GNOME Extensions - OMG! Ubuntu
- Red Hat: Why This Stock Is The Comeback Kid - Investopedia
- Advanced Hypervisor Security for VMware, Nutanix and All Other Linux-Based Hypervisors, Powered by Vali Cyber - Business Wire
- Stratus Releases Linux-based Virtualization for ftServer Platforms - Business Wire
- Latest Release of Stratus’ Linux-Based Fault Tolerance and Virtualization Software Increases Edge Infrastructure Capabilities - Business Wire
- You Can Track Stock Market Data From Your Terminal - HackerNoon
- Rockwell Automation Launches PharmaSuite 12.00 to Accelerate Secure, Scalable Deployments - Stock Titan
- Microsoft Outage Triggered by CrowdStrike Update Causes Global Chaos - Investopedia
- Datavault AI Slashes Audio Integration Time 83% Through Game-Changing Dolby Partnership - Stock Titan
- Digi International Announces FIPS 140-2 Validation for Cryptographic Security on All Digi Accelerated Linux Based Solutions - Business Wire
- 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
- 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” - TipRanks
- LatticeFlow Appoints Global Technology Executive, Andre Boisvert, As Chairman of The Board - TheRecursive.com
- “Data Center GPUs” Prove Little Help for Intel Stock (NASDAQ:INTC) - The Globe and Mail
- VA Linux Registers A 698% Price Pop - WSJ
- New ACI Worldwide Evaluation Demonstrates Significantly Reduced Total Cost of Ownership for UP BASE24-eps on Linux in the Cloud - Business Wire
- 12 Unexpected Things That Exist Because Of Linux - Business Insider
- IBM ‘Returns to HPC’ with New Linux Server Line Says Gupta - HPCwire
- BlackBerry QNX Launches Game-Changing Software Platform as 90% of Future Vehicles Need Advanced Computing - Stock Titan
- Markets: An Open-Source App to Keep Track of Your Investments for Linux Desktop and Phones - It's FOSS
- CrowdStrike Falcon expands Linux protection with enhanced prevention capabilities - ITWeb
- What is Hyperledger? Executive Director Brian Behlendorf Explains the Linux Foundation's Blockchain Initiative - Nasdaq
- After Danish cities, Germany’s Schleswig-Holstein state government to ban Microsoft programs at work - The Economic Times
- Intel Alder Lake Benchmark Battle Pits Windows 11 Vs Linux With Surprising Results - HotHardware
- How ECARX's New Tech Deal Could Transform Your Future Volkswagen Experience - Stock Titan
- VA Linux -- Easy Come, Easy Go / Stock's dramatic rise and fall leave determined workers unfazed - SFGATE
- 10 Best Indian Stocks to Buy According to Billionaires - Insider Monkey
- The Easiest Way to Pull Stock Data into your Python Program: yfinance - Towards Data Science
- 12 Things You See Every Day That Wouldn't Exist Without Linux - Business Insider
- AMD Radeon Linux Driver Hints At Incoming Integer Scaling Feature - HotHardware
- Intel Comet Lake-S 10-Core, 20-Thread CPU Leaked In Linux Driver Update - HotHardware
- CrowdStrike CEO: "This is not a security incident or cyberattack" - Gulf Business
- Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ:SYMC) Antivirus Software Flaw Creates Vulnerability To Overflow Bug - marketexclusive.com
- Review: Running Linux on the PS3 - A detailed view of what's out there - HEXUS.net
- A Linux lovefest / Oracle has a newfound attraction for the open-source software - SFGATE
- 1999: Year of the IPO - CNN
- BUSINESS | Linux shares rocket - BBC
- Did You Know? 13 Amazing Facts About Linux That Will Surprise You - Fossbytes
- LINUX Refunds Total 1265 SOL in 1 Hour: Key Impacts for Crypto Traders and Secondary Market Buyers - Blockchain News
- How to Monitor Stock Prices from Ubuntu Command Line Using Mop - Make Tech Easier

- Apple quietly makes running Linux containers easier on Macs - ZDNET
- How to manage Linux network connections via nmcli and the terminal - Tom's Hardware
- Linux 6.16-rc2 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes - Phoronix
- Kali Linux 2025.2 delivers Bloodhound CE, CARsenal, 13 new tools - Help Net Security
- Digital sovereignty or digital disaster? Denmark’s risky plan to break up with Microsoft is underway - TechRadar
- Denmark ministry says goodbye to Windows & Office 365! - Windows Central
- With support for Windows 10 ending, LibreOffice creator thinks you should switch to Linux instead of Windows 11 - XDA
- Is 2025 finally the year of Linux? We asked shoppers at Micro Center - PCWorld
- Denmark Wants to Dump Microsoft Software for Linux, LibreOffice - PCMag
- Kali Linux 2025.2 Released with Revamped Kali Menu, 13 New Hacking Tools - 9to5Linux
- How to Install and Use Linux Apps on a Chromebook - How-To Geek
- Linux is slowly taking over my life as a PC gamer - XDA
- I Dug Up the Biggest Files on My Linux PC, Here's What I Found - How-To Geek
- I found a Linux distro that combines the best parts of other operating systems (and it works) - ZDNET
- I switched to NixOS after using Windows my whole life, and here’s how it went - XDA
- High Tide (GTK4/libadwaita TIDAL Client for Linux) Hits Flathub - OMG! Ubuntu
- Linux 6.17 Looks Like It Could Go Ahead And Make SMP Support Unconditional - Phoronix
- 3 Linux Problems I Actually Managed to Fix on My Own - How-To Geek
- Rocky Linux 10 Is Out Now as Free Alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 - 9to5Linux
- 5 MacOS-like Linux distros that can rescue your old Intel Mac before support ends - ZDNET
- 6 things I wish I knew about Arch Linux before switching - XDA
- Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux - ZDNET
- Should you ever pay for Linux? 5 times I would - and why - ZDNET
- Here's a faster way to download files on Linux - without a web browser - ZDNET
- Want to save your old computer? Try one of these 8 Linux distros for free - ZDNET
- Can't upgrade to Windows 11? This Linux distro is the best alternative for your Windows 10 PC - ZDNET
- Apple tries to contain itself with lightweight Linux VMs for macOS - theregister.com
- Linux 6.15.2 Fixes "Quite Dramatically...Potentially Dangerous" Idle Power Regression - Phoronix
- I've used Windows all my life, so I dove in the deep end and tried Arch Linux - XDA
- How to create a Linux bash script - and what you can do with it - ZDNET
- 13 Time-Saving Linux Terminal Tricks You Should Be Using - How-To Geek
- As RHEL clones hit version 10, Rocky and Alma chart diverging paths - theregister.com
- Here's how I finally cracked a tricky Linux problem with this AI terminal app - ZDNET
- The newest Kubuntu Focus M2 Linux laptop features Intel Arrow Lake and NDIVIA RTX 50 Series graphics - Liliputing
- Linux 6.16 Lands Proper Power Management Fix For Code That Caused Power Regression - Phoronix
- How to Run a Linux OS on your Chromebook - Tom's Hardware
- New Linux Flaws Allow Password Hash Theft via Core Dumps in Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora - The Hacker News
- Sorry Docker: macOS 26 adds native support for Linux containers - AppleInsider
- The reasons people hate Linux are why I love it - XDA
- I've used virtually every Linux distro, but this one has a fresh perspective - ZDNET
- 9 Linux Distros I've Used Over 9 Years—Ranked - How-To Geek
- 3 lessons I learned while using Linux as a Windows fanboy - XDA
- Discover Linux Mint 22: How Cinnamon Became the Sleek, Speedy Desktop Champion of 2025 - Linux Journal
- LibreOffice maker urges Windows 10 users to defect in viral ‘Go Linux, not Windows 11’ campaign - TechRadar
- No SSH? What Is Talos, This Linux Distro for Kubernetes? - The New Stack
- Third-Party Apps Made Easy — Simplify Linux App Installations Using Deb-Get - Tom's Hardware
- Intel Begins Preparing Linux For Next-Gen DSA 3.0 Accelerators - Phoronix
- Updating your Windows 10 PC? I found a Linux distro that can give it 5 to 10 more years of life - ZDNET
- Attention! Linux Mint 20 Has Reached Its End - It's FOSS News
- Kubuntu Focus M2 Gen 6: Powerful Linux laptop launches with RTX 5070 Ti, Ultra 9 275HX and space for up to 96 GB RAM - Notebookcheck
- Kali Linux 2025.2 Released: New Tools, Smartwatch and Car Hacking Added - GBHackers News
- Why I Love My New Linux Window Manager - How-To Geek
- I tried multiple Linux distros on WSL - these are the best 5 - XDA
- The 5 Easiest Arch Linux Distros to Get Started With - How-To Geek
- My Winter Of ’99: The Year Of The Linux Desktop Is Always Next Year - Hackaday
- Apple Release New Tools for Running Linux Containers on Mac - OMG! Ubuntu
- Denmark’s Government Ditches Microsoft for Open Source - OMG! Ubuntu
- These 7 Apps Helped Me Use Linux After Ditching Windows - How-To Geek
- 4 ways to level up your gaming on Linux, starting with the right distro - ZDNET
- The elusive goal of Unix – or Linux – simplicity - theregister.com
- The Linux 6.15 kernel arrives - and it's big a victory for Rust fans - ZDNET
- Three ways to run Windows apps on a Linux box - theregister.com
- Nitrux Linux Drops Its KDE Plasma-Based NX Desktop for Hyprland - 9to5Linux
- Linux Mint 22.2 Adds Native Fingerprint Login Support - OMG! Ubuntu
- How Red Hat just quietly, radically transformed enterprise server Linux - ZDNET
- These 5 Lightweight Linux Distros Go Easy on Your Old Windows PC - How-To Geek
- WordPress Fork Next? Linux Foundation Launches FAIR Package Manager - It's FOSS News
- 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 15th, 2025 - 9to5Linux
- Intel's mythical Big Battlemage GPU pops up in the MESA Linux driver making a launch later this year that little bit more likely - PC Gamer
- WSL is designed to keep Linux users happy on Windows, but it helped me switch to Linux instead - XDA
- I tried Linux Mint as a Windows fanboy and here's how it went - XDA
- Ready to ditch Windows 10? Here are 12 reasons Linux Mint is the perfect introduction for Windows converts - XDA
- Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Initial Support For VP9 Decoding - Phoronix
- The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source - Windows Blog
- KubeCon China – Open Source a '$9 trillion' asset, says Linux Foundation's Zemlin. But what about AI? - Diginomica
- Linux Malware Authors Targeting Cloud Environments with ELF Binaries - GBHackers News
- macOS Meets Linux with Open Source Containerization - It's FOSS News
- AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT Linux GPU Compute Performance Review - Phoronix
- I regret switching to Linux, even though I wanted to love it - XDA
- Linux 6.16-rc1 Released: New AMD & Intel Drivers, More Performance & Blackwell Support - Phoronix
- The New Kubuntu Focus M2 Laptop Has Linux and an RTX 5070 Ti - How-To Geek
- Proton is so good these days, I wish I could make the switch to Linux - XDA
- Taking AMD Ryzen AI Max Performance To The Max With Clear Linux & CachyOS Review - Phoronix
- 9 Open Source Operating Systems That Aren't Linux - How-To Geek
- I installed Linux on my Nintendo Switch, because why wouldn't I? - XDA
- Chaos RAT Malware Targets Windows and Linux via Fake Network Tool Downloads - The Hacker News
- Why I Switched to Linux From Windows (It Wasn't the Bugs or Updates) - How-To Geek
- LibreOffice backs campaign to help users move from Windows 10 to Linux – and ditch Office, too - TechSpot
- No, Linux didn't eat your RAM, here's what's actually happening - XDA
- Linux Fu: Stopping A Runaway - Hackaday
- Sponsorships Seem to Be Coming to Arch Linux! - It's FOSS News
- The Essential Linux commands that every user needs to know - Tom's Hardware
- Microsoft open sources Windows Subsystem for Linux – well, most of it - theregister.com
- Ubuntu Vs. Debian: A Look At Beginner Friendly Linux Distribution - Simplilearn.com
- I tried Hannah Montana Linux in 2025 - here’s how it went - XDA
- Kali GPT – Revolutionizing Penetration Testing with AI on Kali Linux - GBHackers News
- PeaZip 10.5 Brings Major Performance Boost to the File and Archive Manager - 9to5Linux
- Linux Foundation unveils decentralized WordPress plugin manager - BleepingComputer
- I tried gaming on Linux — and it's better (and worse) than you think - Tom's Guide
- Kali Linux 2025.2 Released: Smartwatch Wi-Fi Injection, Android Radio, and Hacking Tools - CybersecurityNews
- 5 Great Linux Utilities to Monitor Your System Resources in the Terminal - How-To Geek