On 01/20/2012 01:53 PM, Eric VS wrote: > Hi, > > Although I agree in full that LILO shouldn't be required knowledge for > LPIC-1 certification, I don't agree at all with the statement made > by Simone Piccardi, LILO is not at all obsolete nor unused. If you look > for example at Slackware, which is about the oldest actively maintained > distribution and very popular among 'geeky' Linux users, it still has > LILO as bootloader. Slackware is also used in several server farms I > know because of it's high security and specific strengths. Apart from > those facts we should also consider that LPIC certified professionals > should at least know of the existence and be able to maintain and > administer LILO because LILO might still be encountered in recently > installed systems and 'ancient' ones. It would be a grave error in my > opinion to discard 'a choice' Linux professionals have just because it's > not as popular as GRUB/GRUB2. Don't discard a valid alternative because > you don't use it. > > Kind regards, >
I just know a few server farms, so my experience is quite limited, but I do not remember having seen a server with LILO (also Slackware ones) for many years. Anyway there is a difference between what a professional should be capable of, and what you require to study for a certification. Because also knowing how to setup a PXE boot should be known, as it has far more uses now than LILO, which knowledge is just about maintenance of legacy installation (if some "professional sysadmin" would propose me to use LILO on new installations I will certainly search for another one). You cannot ask people to know everything when certifying, you have to choice topics that have the most relevance. I'm stating that LILO, as many other arguments, today does not have this kind of relevance. Simone -- Simone Piccardi Truelite Srl picca...@truelite.it (email/jabber) Via Monferrato, 6 Tel. +39-347-1032433 50142 Firenze http://www.truelite.it Tel. +39-055-7879597 Fax. +39-055-7333336 _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
