US Navy - The US Navy's most advanced warship is powered by Linux. The next generation warship is a guided missile destroyer. It uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux along with Fedora as its operating systems. The Navy also utilizes Linux to run it's drone fleet. Government use of open source continues to expand.
ConnectED and edX - President Obama announced on November 2014, that edX and ConnectED will partner to deliver teacher training and AP courses. ConnectED is the President's initiative to enhance K-12 through the delivery of broadband access and digital content.
Open License - On October 29, 2015 the Department of Education announced a proposed regulation to require that all copyrightable intellectual property created with grant funds have an open license. Openly licensed materials can be modified and redistributed without violating copyright laws.
Edubuntu - Edubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with community based support. Edubuntu provides a system that contains all the best free software available in education and makes it easy to install and maintain.
Free Technology Academy - The FTA provides a virtual campus offering course modules on Free Software and Open Standards. Educational materials in the FTA are released under free licenses. FTA is constructed on a Free Software OS and utilizes Free Software and standards to deliver its services.
bash - Bash is both a command interpreter and a programming language. As a command interpreter, bash provides the user interface to the rich set of GNU utilities. The programming language features allow these utilities to be combined. Mastering a shell such as bash is important for anyone learning Linux.
find - The find program searches for files that match the specified criteria and optionally executes some function on those files. Find can compare or identify files based on name, location, type, size, creation and many more attributes. find is a very useful and powerful command line utility.