On Tuesday 16 September 2008 22:07:43 Andy Goldschmidt wrote: > Hi > > Which 2 distributions should I use in my training classes ? > I am training LPI 1. > > I need one representative of both the the rpm and the dpkg way of doing > things. > > I was going with Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 - but both are so modern and > differ quite a bit from the LPI objectives. > (E.g. using Upstart in place of init etc) > > So which 2 distributions adequately reflect the LPI objectives ?
I've had a fair amount of experience delivering training, both LPI-aligned and not, so here's my input: It honestly does not matter much which distro you use, as long as it's somewhat current and not one which is obviously NOT suitable. If you go with Slackware or gentoo for example (fine distros both) you will need a third to demonstrate package management. There's nothing wrong with Red Hat 9, but it likely will not run on current hardware in your courseroom. LPI tries really hard to test generic Linux, but no mainstream distro aims for that. I stress to students that there are apparently vast differences between distros, but this is mainly superficial. This distro has a green them, that one has a blue theme; Suse has YAST, Red Hat has system-config*. Once you have gotten past this minor obstacle, all differences between distros surrender to an assault using find, locate and man. Any old combination of Red Hat / Fedora / Centos / Mandriva / Debian / Ubuntu / SUSE / OpenSUSE will do just fine. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
