Sorry for the possible duplicate you might receive, I must resend this one.
G. Matthew Rice wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Alessandro Selli > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I wonder if and why a prospective Linux Essentials certified person would >> be required to know the differences between a generic Linux distribution, >> Windows and MacOS X. I've never had any experience of MacOS X, to say one. >> > I guess it leaked in from the ICT component and not the Linux part. > Well, one could spend a whole lot of winter nights by the fire sobbing a good glass of red wine telling his grandchildren of all the different lands he travelled to and the people he met: Windows sysadmins deep in a grotto of NT Mount rebooting their servers twenty time an hour on a massive update, Mac people loosing their sanity and self-control staring on a solitary crystal island a glimmering iPad screening the face and reproducing the gentle voice of their Messiah delivering a teaching from the Holy Book of Jobs... What are the differences that count? What are the irrilevant ones of the too technical ones? But most importantly: is ignorance of these differences an impediment in grasping the fundamental concepts of Linux? I think the objectives were designed with the basic Windows or Mac user in mind; what about if someone had had his/her first and only IT experience on a Linuxbox? >> I wouldn't add updatedb to the list, however the candidate should be aware >> that locate gets it's data out of a database. Knowing that this database is >> updated by a command called updatedb wouldn't be too much, I opine. >> > Where do you stop? What mechanism cause updatedb to run? Do we go > into that? Or where the error messages end up? > I wouldn't go so deep into the details. Suffices to know that there is this updatedb command, that the superuser alone can run. You're a newbie, and an underprivileged one for that matter, you don't need to know more. At most people can be told that there is a system daemon periodically running this command to keep the database updated every day or week, but they don't need to even know it's name. > Not saying that I disagree with you, BTW? Just where to stop. > I'd stop early, but not too much! :-) Regards, -- Alessandro Selli Tel: 340.839.73.05 http://alessandro.route-add.net, VOIP: sip:[email protected] Chiave PGP/GPG key: EC885A8B _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
