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
- Infosys (INFY) Advances Responsible AI in Networking Through Linux Foundation Partnership - Yahoo Finance
- CyberArk Helps Modernize Identity and Access Management for Linux Machines With New Identity Bridge Capability - Business Wire
- Automox Launches Real-Time Linux CVE Data to Outpace NVD Delays - GlobeNewswire
- Akamai Delivers Infrastructure Support to Ensure Uninterrupted Linux Kernel Development – Company Announcement - Financial Times
- BSV joins Linux Foundation to advance open standards - CoinGeek
- 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
- Elon Musk Suggests Shifting 'Consumer Desktops To Linux' As Satya Nadella Promotes Microsoft's New Windows AI Feature 'Recall' With Photographic Memory - Benzinga
- You Can Track Stock Market Data From Your Terminal - HackerNoon
- VA Linux: The Linux Company That Once Ruled NASDAQ - It's FOSS
- Cybercriminals Target Linux-Based Systems With Ransomware and Cryptojacking Attacks - Broadcom
- Digi International Announces Expanded Support for Linux and Windows with Digi AnywhereUSB® Plus - Business Wire
- Opera (NASDAQ:OPRA): Underrated AI Stock Yielding Over 5% - Yahoo Finance
- Advanced Hypervisor Security for VMware, Nutanix and All Other Linux-Based Hypervisors, Powered by Vali Cyber - Business Wire
- Infosys and Linux Foundation Networking Collaborate to Strengthen Responsible AI for Global Networks - Yahoo Finance
- Digi International Announces FIPS 140-2 Validation for Cryptographic Security on All Digi Accelerated Linux Based Solutions - Business Wire
- Datavault AI Signs Interoperability License Agreement with Dolby - Business Wire
- MariaDB Completes Merger and Lands on NYSE as “MRDB” - Business Wire
- Easily Monitor Stock Prices with these GNOME Extensions - OMG! Ubuntu
- AI Simulation Leader Cosmo Tech Appoints Andre M. Boisvert as Lead Independent Director - Business Wire
- Crowdstrike shares plunge 12% after massive global IT outage - markets.businessinsider.com
- SUSE Stock Price | Stock Quote, News, and History - markets.businessinsider.com
- Red Hat Earnings: Amazon A Threat In Linux Landscape? - Investor's Business Daily
- How ECARX's New Tech Deal Could Transform Your Future Volkswagen Experience - Stock Titan
- Microsoft Stock Price Poised for 14% Lift from Cloud (Nasdaq: MSFT) - MoneyMorning.com
- Akamai to host kernel.org, bolstering Linux development - Investing.com
- VA Linux Registers A 698% Price Pop - WSJ
- 12 Unexpected Things That Exist Because Of Linux - Business Insider
- CrowdStrike Falcon expands Linux protection with enhanced prevention capabilities - ITWeb
- 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 -- Easy Come, Easy Go / Stock's dramatic rise and fall leave determined workers unfazed - SFGATE
- Intel Slips Battlemage Support And Power-Saving Features Into Linux 6.11 - HotHardware
- The Easiest Way to Pull Stock Data into your Python Program: yfinance - Towards Data Science
- Intel Alder Lake Benchmarks Show Linux Running Circles Around Windows 11 - HotHardware
- Microsoft Will Deliver Linux GUI App Support To Windows 10 With WSL2 - HotHardware
- Intel Stock (NASDAQ:INTC) Gains, Earnings Outlook May Be “Useless” - The Globe and Mail
- 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
- AMD Radeon Linux Driver Hints At Incoming Integer Scaling Feature - HotHardware
- Is IBM (NYSE: IBM) Making Money? - DataDrivenInvestor
- Linux Kernel 4.8 Release Enables NVIDIA's Pascal, Raspberry Pi 3 And AMD GPU Overclocking - HotHardware
- VA Linux beats the Street - CNN
- 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
- Review: Running Linux on the PS3 - A detailed view of what's out there - HEXUS.net
- 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
- Did You Know? 13 Amazing Facts About Linux That Will Surprise You - Fossbytes

- Bytedance Proposes Faster Linux Inter-Process Communication With "Run Process As Library" - Phoronix
- You can run Arch Linux in Windows now - here's how - ZDNET
- KDE 3 lives to fight another day as Trinity Desktop 14.1.4 hits the shelves - theregister.com
- A Simple Way to Install Talos Linux on Any Machine, with Any Provider - Linux.com
- Kali Linux warns of update failures after losing repo signing key - BleepingComputer
- openSUSE Leap 16 Enters Public Beta Testing with Agama Installer, Linux 6.12 LTS - 9to5Linux
- Linux App Release Roundup (April 2025) - OMG! Ubuntu
- 5 reasons NixOS is the most exciting Linux distro in years - XDA
- 5 Reasons Now Is the Right Time to Buy a Linux Laptop - How-To Geek
- Critical Linux Kernel Flaw (CVE-2025-21756) Allows Privilege Escalation - GBHackers News
- I regret switching to Linux, even though I wanted to love it - XDA
- Wuthering Waves arrives on Steam, another with anti-cheat problems on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux - GamingOnLinux
- 5 ways to use the Linux terminal on your Android phone - including my favorite - ZDNET
- Arch Linux Is Now in the Windows Subsystem for Linux - How-To Geek
- Linux Fu: Stopping A Runaway - Hackaday
- BTW Windows Subsystem for Linux officially uses Arch now - theregister.com
- I installed Linux on my Nintendo Switch, because why wouldn't I? - XDA
- Can a Linux laptop replace my MacBook? Only if it looks like this and has these specs - ZDNET
- 5 High-Performance Linux Distros for Modern PCs and Laptops - How-To Geek
- Watch out for any Linux malware sneakily evading syscall-watching antivirus - theregister.com
- Linux 6.15-rc4 Released With Performance Regression Fix, Corrected Bcachefs Case Folding - Phoronix
- This lightning-fast Linux distro will hook you the moment you try it - ZDNET
- Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" - XDA
- How to easily run your favorite local AI models on Linux with this handy app - ZDNET
- I'm a Linux power user, and this distro made me rethink what an operating system can be - ZDNET
- If your Windows support is ending, it's time to learn Linux. Here's the best distro for beginners - ZDNET
- openSUSE Leap 16 Beta is here with Wayland and a modern Linux foundation - BetaNews
- You Can Now Officially Run Arch Linux Inside Windows - It's FOSS News
- 7 Linux distros you should avoid until you've mastered the command line - ZDNET
- Alert to Kali Linux admins: Get the new signing key or no distro updates for you - csoonline.com
- HP Dev One Review: The Ultimate Linux Laptop for Developers | HP® Tech Takes - HP.com
- FOSS Weekly #25.18: Linux Magazine, Modern Terminals, Muse Pi, apt Guide and More - It's FOSS
- Dune: Awakening set for a public playtest May 9-12 but the anti-cheat concerns me for Linux / Steam Deck - GamingOnLinux
- Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds Memory Pool Support For Some Massive Performance Gains - Phoronix
- OIN marks 20 years of defending Linux and open source from patent trolls - ZDNET
- Linux io_uring PoC Rootkit Bypasses System Call-Based Threat Detection Tools - The Hacker News
- VeeamON shows Veeam on Linux, RAG from backup, and cloud features - Computer Weekly
- 8 ways to protect your privacy on Linux and keep your data safe - ZDNET
- Proton 10 Beta Brings More Steam Games to Linux - How-To Geek
- openSUSE Leap 16 Available For Beta Testing - Built From SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 - Phoronix
- Ultramarine Linux: An Anime-Inspired Fedora-Based Distro With Serious Features - How-To Geek
- 5 reasons I stopped dual‑booting Linux/Windows and spun up a Type‑2 hypervisor instead - XDA
- Infinity Nikki on Steam works on Steam Deck but the situation is odd and anti-cheat blocks Desktop Linux - GamingOnLinux
- Lenovo slashes Windows tax with cheaper Linux laptops - Fudzilla.com
- This Open-Source Project Brings the Best Part of Linux to Windows - How-To Geek
- New Linux Patches Propose Removing Support For Old i486 & Early i586 CPUs - Phoronix
- Valve's Proton 10.0 Beta Released With More Windows Games Now Playable On Linux - Phoronix
- YouTuber PewDiePie Switches to Linux - WebProNews
- DRM Code For Linux 6.16 Hides The "Disgusting Turds" & Adds TI AM68 GPU Support - Phoronix
- Commodore OS Vision 3.0 Linux-based OS arrives to spruce up retro builds - Tom's Hardware
- My favorite SSH clients for Android - and why you need them - ZDNET
- Apple @ Work Podcast: Adaptiva expands to Mac and Linux - 9to5Mac
- A Linux 6.15 Performance Regression Hits Modern AMD CPUs Review - Phoronix
- 5 things to do with the Linux terminal on your Android phone - including my favorite - ZDNET
- Avocado OS: Open-source Linux platform for embedded systems - Help Net Security
- Linux 'io_uring' security blindspot allows stealthy rootkit attacks - BleepingComputer
- Delta Force devs say Desktop Linux support is 'not part of our agenda in the future' - GamingOnLinux
- My 6 must-have Linux apps for productivity, and why they make work easier - ZDNET
- Intel HID Preps For Panther Lake, Other Laptop Enhancements Squeeze Into Linux 6.15 - Phoronix
- Tests indicate Intel's '200S Boost' feature provides no real gain for Arrow Lake CPUs on Linux - Tom's Hardware
- PoC rootkit Curing evades traditional Linux detection systems - Security Affairs
- Ubuntu 25.04 & Fedora 42 Hit A Long Sought Milestone With HDR Support Working Well On The Linux Desktop Review - Phoronix
- New Linux Patches Aim To Customize Out-Of-Memory Behavior Using BPF - Phoronix
- Why I Dual-Boot But Choose Linux Over Windows Almost Every Time - How-To Geek
- Kali Linux Users Need to do This Right Away! - It's FOSS News
- Linux laptop lagging? 5 simple ways to speed it up fast - ZDNET
- AdGuard brings full command line ad-blocking to Linux with stable v1.0 release - BetaNews
- 5 of the Most Unconventional Linux Distributions - How-To Geek
- The Best Office Suites for Linux - The New Stack
- I Made My Partner Use Linux for a Week–Here’s How It Went - How-To Geek
- Deferred THP Insertion Nearing The Linux Kernel To Help Avoid Memory Waste - Phoronix
- 6 Linux applications and tools that prevent me from ever switching back to Windows - XDA
- XPG Alpha Wireless Gaming Mouse Being Quirked For Linux Support - Phoronix
- AlmaLinux 9.6 Beta released: Here’s what Linux users need to know - BetaNews
- Linux Has A Blind Spot That Exposes Users To A Nasty Security Flaw - HotHardware
- Upgraded Open-Source EV Charging Software Stack Supports New and Legacy Apps - Electronic Design
- Kali Linux users warned that updates are likely to fail for a few days - BetaNews
- Forget WinRAR: These Are the Best Native Archive Managers for Linux - How-To Geek
- 5 Popular Linux Distributions and Who They're Meant For - How-To Geek
- EU OS: A European Proposal for a Public Sector Linux Desktop - The New Stack
- Outlaw Cybergang Launches Global Attacks on Linux Environments with New Malware - GBHackers News
- Kali Linux Warns that Update Process is Going to Fail for All Users - CybersecurityNews
- Best Linux distros for reviving an old PC - Tom's Hardware
- Linux developers want to remove i486 and i586 Pentium CPU support to unburden kernel developers - Tom's Hardware
- Linux 6.15 Lands Fix For "3x Performance Regression" Affecting Nginx & Other Software - Phoronix
- Linux 6.15-rc4 To Fix The Kernel Crashing For 32-bit Systems With Too Much RAM - Phoronix
- EA rebrand and refresh their anti-cheat into EA Javelin Anticheat, still blocks Linux / Steam Deck - GamingOnLinux
- Thunderbird 138 Adds New Default Color Override for High Contrast Mode on Linux - 9to5Linux
- The Death of Windows 10 Could Net You a Bunch of Free Linux PCs - How-To Geek
- This Joke Linux Tool Will Make You Seem More Productive - How-To Geek
- Forget Windows 11. These mad lads made Linux look like Windows XP! - pcworld.com
- As the Kernel Turns: Rust in Linux saga reaches the “Linus in all-caps” phase - Ars Technica
- Critical Linux Kernel Vulnerability Exposes Systems to Privilege Escalation Attacks - CybersecurityNews
- Peridio’s Avocado OS Simplifies Secure Boot, Updates, and Debugging for Embedded Developers - Embedded Computing Design
- These 5 Linux distributions are the worst for beginners - XDA
- How to start using the new Linux terminal on your Android device - ZDNET
- 5 awesome Linux features that will blow the mind of a Windows user - XDA
- 5 reasons I stopped dual-booting Windows and Linux on my PC - XDA
- Linux Fu: USB Everywhere - Hackaday
- Chinese Hackers Target Linux Systems Using SNOWLIGHT Malware and VShell Tool - The Hacker News