Sorry, on phone. So apologies for not combining into one response. On Tue, Jan 6, 2026, 02:13 Werner Heuser via lpi-examdev < [email protected]> wrote:
> #2 > > There are so many topics, please consider to streamline them, and > > get rid e.g. of SuSE distro and related commands like zypper > SYNOPSYS: - Apt and DNF should be covered (focus) - Pacman and Zypper should be considered (awareness) DETAILS: Red Hat/CentOS 9-10 changes the last 3+ years are pushing OpenSUSE Leap / SLES 15-16 ** to renewed interest, so... Zypper use is still relevant in my view. SUSE Rancher is also very popular in my space, over Red Hat OpenShift / ICP. ** Even I'm running Leap 16 on my personal systems now, and I'm a former 4 digit Red Hat employee. (there are four other main distributions already: > > Debian, RedHat, Android, Raspberry Pi OS). > CONTINUED... I define a main Linux distribution as... 1) A GNU system 2) Packaged software system That would result in Debian and Fedora being the main Upstream, with OpenSUSE being another with Enterprise Linux (EL) / Long Term Support (LTS) releases of five-plus (5+) years, two (2) of those with 1:1 free downstream releases of 5+ years. - Debian ==> Ubuntu ==> Ubuntu LTS 5y (Canonical Advantage 7-10y) - OpenSUSE ==> OpenSUSE LEAP 7-8y (SLES 11-16y) Android is not a GNU/Linux distribution. It's not a GNU system, a very important distinction. I would also not call Raspberry a distribution, but an 'embedded toolkit,' right down to how it differs from 'main Linux distributions.' Otherwise, we'll open a can of worms. Raspberry can be noted as the leading embedded distribution. So Zypper is of relevance, and will be for some time, so I'd argue 'awareness.' Arch is also popular enough, and the Upstream of SteamOS, among others, so we may want to consider Pacman for 'awareness.' Immutable distributions also exist for each of these, with Arch, Fedora and OpenSUSE being very popular, including the last two (2) have major adoption in the EL/LTS downstream. (Again, Red Hat OpenShift and SUSE Rancher). Arch is also becoming a popular 'rolling release' immutable distro too. Get rid of commands like apt-get, nano, rmdir. > > There is apt already and vi and rm. > SUMMARY: *dir commands, nano are Essentials everywhere I've taught/trained. Nano awareness is relevant for Essentials. It's the first editor anyone new will use to do anything. Not understanding 'rm' v. 'rmdir', they complement each other. Most specifically, I tell people to use 'rmdir' of they think a directory is empty. > > #3 > > "last" command gets deprecated and replaced by "wtmpdb". > It provides a year 2038-safe replacement for the traditional Unix "last" > utility. > Yes, the wtmp kit is now deprecated for this reason. SLES 16 and, I believe, RHEL 10 are fully 2038 compliant. SLES 15 and RHEL 9 Extended support options end early 2038 January. #4 > > "LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Firefox, Chromium, VS Code, GIMP, Inkscape, > VLC, R" > As others mentioned... Upstream 'Codium' instead of 'VSCode,' just like 'Chromium' instead of 'Chrome' (or MSEdge). #7 > > "Basic Regular Expressions using ., [ ], *, and ?" > > Please use Extended Regular Expressions - ERE instead of BRE. > For Essentials, Basic RegEx. LPIC-1 exists for power users, engineers and sysadmins. #8 > > Please consider to remove "zip, unzip" (or include them into further > LPIC-1). > > I can only guess why zip is included, maybe because it is capable to > > handle MS-Window files. In this case consider to include 7z too. > > BTW: gzip, bzip2, xz are mentioned, this should be enough. > Well, they are how LibreOffice and other files are compresses. There are a few, general archiving/compression tools these days too. I'm not going to comment further, but we could really use a good 'awareness' list. #9 > > Please consider to use dig instead of host. Go for the real thing, even > for beginners. > I not only disagree, but 'host' output is ideal for scripting. 'dig' is not. Dig is almost a debugger for DNS. At most, 'dig' should be an 'awareness' mention. LAST COMMENTS: Since we *DO* want to 'sell' professionals on LPIC-1 as part of 'Essentials,' maybe these 'awareness' commands can be 'lead-ins/precursors' to LPIC-1 (even LPIC-2) objectives? Don't know how we frame/present that in the objectives, but it's something I've wanted to being up before. <https://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev>
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