Re: [lpi-examdev]LinuxCore/Level0

[Tcat Houser]

Oh YES!   The issue facing the open source/linux community is FUD. A really low cost exam would build confidence in the candidate and start the ball to LPI 1. The candidate could be "interested" in IT and Linux/Open Source. At the risk of sounding very politically incorrect, this reminds me of a "Candy little girl?"   The analogy is bad in some ways (evil intent) but the tempation part applies. Give the test candidate a small win and get the ball rolling.   Just my proverbial 02. Tcat     On 6/8/2004 8:56:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's taken me way to long to start this conversation.  Thanks for your > patience. > > There has been a great demand for a low-stakes Linux/Open Source concepts > exam.  LPI has decided to address that with a LinuxCore exam.  I won't > > bore you with details on delivery, but it will be a low-cost, single exam. > > > LPI decided the name "LinuxCore" (actually, that's Evan's brain-child to > > be honest) instead of Level 0, because we don't want it confused with our > existing sysadmin track. > > What skills is LinuxCore supposed to test?  Not even user-level skills, > but conceptual ones.  Licensing, what makes the OS different, the > who/what/when/where of Linux and open source, what is an OS.. stuff like > that. > > Is this a task our brains can grapple with? > > What do you think?  What can we cover with this subject?  What kind of > candidates could you see for such a program?