On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 23:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I like some of the vendor-specific docs they maintain on their sites. > > Red Hat has heaps of docs. Very RH specific but I have gleaned many a > generic gem from them. And they are accurate. Maximum RPM is > invaluable, the only reference I have found that can really take > candidates from the install/erase/query level up to the standard of > question I was asked in 101. The GNU Make utilities book there is good, > perhaps too high-level for most though.
This is a good point that in some circumstances we must use a vendor's material as the best example. Maximum RPM would be in that category. > Mandrake has very little, SuSE almost nothing. Debian has a large > collectin of HOWTOs and manuals, I have yet to find an error there. Debian How-tos in specific instances (like the dpkg and apt-get stuff) would also fit. I am concerned that going beyond that would tend to skew or vendor neutrality some. > For specific products, I recommend: > > Using Samba 3 - it comes with Mandrake 10 but is also one of the Bruce > Perens Open Source Books series: > http://phptr.com/promotion/1484?redir=1 > This whole collection is worth downloading. The whole collection is > worth buying in hard copy too. This is a concept of using open source documents like this series to help in exam development and in candidate preparation. With open licenses we could even keep a small repository on the LPI site so we cna ensure the materials are available as long as we test on them. -- Mark Miller Program Manager Exam Development Level 1 Linux Professional Institute _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
