As per slamberton <[email protected]>:
> Siavash Sefidvash wrote: >> Hello again, I have been using the Viasinc online material to work >> towards the LPI 101 exam. Viasinc are supposed to be approved by LPI yet >> I have noticed they include Yum package manager as part of the >> objectives when at the same time I notice OpenSuse is not using it >> anymore. Is anyone here using Viasinc? Can anyone from LPI confirm >> Viasinc's approval rating? >> >> >> Regards >> Siavash Sefidvash > > Siavash: > > As Anselm has already indicated LPI no longer uses the LPI Approved > Training Materials (LPI-ATM) designation--although individual affiliates > may have an approval programs for their territories. LPI dropped this > program as many of our affiliates felt that the costs (and process) > associated with this program were acting as a barrier to the development > of language-specific courseware. > > However, to be listed on our website books, course material, etc. must > align with our exam objectives. Our product development team reviews > all such material to ensure that it does align with our exam objectives. > Viasinc does align with our new objectives--and they previously did > have LPI-ATM status. > > On your question regarding OpenSuse (and as others have pointed out) LPI > is distribution-neutral. We don't develop our exam objectives with any > one Linux distribution in mind. Instead Linux professionals from around > the world determine through our exam development process what should be > included in our exams. This may mean that our exams include objectives > on technologies that are not included in some distributions. For more > informaiton on our exam development process please see the following: > http://www.lpi.org/eng/certification/exam_development_process > > Hope this helps. > > scott > > -- > Scott Lamberton > Director of Communications > Linux Professional Institute > http://www.lpi.org > [email protected] > +1-905-269-0862 > _______________________________________________ > lpi-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss > Suse may want to stay in the 'yast management' mode, but it seems that the rest of the RPM based world is 'YUM-centric' and well supported in the upstream. When you think CentOS, OEL, Fedora, and RHEL (that's a lot of systems), it's going to be yum. Best Regards, Don Corbet _______________________________________________ lpi-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss
