On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Alessandro Selli <[email protected]> wrote: > It only involves the notions of Internet connections being ON (that is, > ESTABLISHED) and being OFF (everything else). It should not entail any > knowledge of TPC protocols, packets, flags and states. > > for something that new Linux users basically don't need to know. > > Who can say that? A basic TCP/IP networking knowledge is required almost > everywhere one is supposed to put his/her hands on a keyboard.
Are you certain? I know many proficient C/xxx programmers on Linux that barely grasp the IP experience (they just aren't into that sort of stuff; they do scientific stuff on Linux/Unix). They also whine about pointers, though, ... > I never considered introducing manual networking configuration in the > Linux Essentials Objectives. But I do think knowing one's box IP address to > be relevant to beginners, too. I might be wrong, but doing ip addr list or > ifconfig | grep inet does not look like rocket science to me. You seem to be arguing out this issue in the e-mail but it looks like you came to the same conclusion as Anselm and a few others; less networking. Or the attribution '>'s may be getting messed up. > Topic 1.3.3 > We can also add XZ & 7z, 7-zip suite as well. They are very popular these > days, > > One should at least know that there are at least three ways to compress a > file under the sun, and not look in amazement at a tar.xz file with no idea > if that is an alien creature or a tropical flower. How about the file(1) command, then? Regards, -- G. Matthew Rice <[email protected]> gpg id: EF9AAD20 _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
