On Thursday 17 May 2007, Bo Rothwell wrote: > Hi all, > > I completely concur with the opinion listed in Sander's email > regarding the value of "hands on" certification. I am a RHCE and > instructor myself and I firmly believe that LPIC should be a "hands > on" exam, not a multiple choice exam.
It appears to me that you have not thought this through, as such a thing could never ever work if done by LPI. For one very simple reason: Which distro? Follow the answer to that question through all it's ramifications and implications and you'll see why. You see, the Linux world does not revolve around Red Hat's incarnation of OSS software. LPI is distro-agnostic, so such a test would have to use unmodified upstream sources as much as possible, which reduces your choice to pretty much two: Slackware Gentoo The rpm crowd would be upset. The debian crowd would go ballistic. The Slackers and Gentoo-ists would be overjoyed and hence prove to the world that they are in fact elitists... There's only one way to do hands-on testing, and that for a distro vendor to create a distro-specific hands-on exam. Which is why Red Hat and Novell do it that way. But LPI can't. See my other mail for more comments on why the LPI method is valid and why the RHEL exam is actually somewhat different to what gets claimed for it. -- Alan McKinnon alan at gmail dot com _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
