Alan McKinnon wrote: > The closest we have to an upstream default distro is Slackware, which makes a > big thing out of making the minimum possible changes to upstream defaults, > and > then only to ensure that the thing works. I don't know how many LPI > candidates > use Slack frequently, but I'm sure it's not statistically significant.
Depends on your viewpoint. E.g., The current CEO of Red Hat ran his business on it at one point. ;) But yes, as far as the "new to the scene" crowd, Slackware hardly gets enough exposure. Alan McKinnon wrote: > RH and derivatives/Debian and derivatives has the lion's share of the Linux > market that LPI aims for. If our exams verify that the candidate actually > does > know how to get both those systems running, then we have measured something > very useful. Don't forget about OpenSUSE/SLES/NLD marketshare. ;) Alan McKinnon wrote: > Consider this: Assume someone is highly proficient with Gentoo but clueless > on > RH/Debian. Also assume LPI is truly distro-agnostic and this person has > earned > an LPI cert. He's somewhat at sea with RH/Debian though (much like LPI > certified people find FreeBSD mostly familiar but also different enough to be > confusing). Now, can a hiring manager consider this person to be truly > certified in this thing called LINUX when you take the realities of the real > world into account? Flipping that, understanding distributed port/source building is a valuable skill. So it's really not up to LPI to evaluate such, but the employer. Most of the LPIC-1 still focuses on skills outside of package management. I assume that was not unintentional, and won't change anytime soon. Donald A. Tevault wrote: > The most high-profile example I've heard of is the San Francisco > Chronicle. Last year, they decided to upgrade from the Red Hat 6 that > they were running, but couldn't afford the support contract for RHEL. > So, they switched to CentOS, instead. Ouch! They were still way back on Red Hat Linux 6? Alan McKinnon wrote: > The lead distributor for RH in this country quite freely recommends Centos to > any customer who balks at RH pricing and also doesn't have corporate > governance rules to comply with. He's crunched the numbers and can show that > this makes excellent business sense. It also increases sales, and they've > been > in this game for 13 years and plan to stay the distance. Which distributor is that? BTW, a lot of people are balking at Canonical Ubuntu LTS Server (the one with actual backports and 5 years of support ;) and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) pricing as well. -- Bryan J Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith ------------------------------------------------------------- Fission Power: An Inconvenient Solution _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
