On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 06:48 -0500, G. Matthew Rice wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Simone Piccardi <picca...@truelite.it> wrote: > >> Correct. LILO was deemed 'not critical beginner knowledge' any > >> longer. However, an LPIC-2 level person should know how to deal with > > > > I still have some doubt having to maintain knowledge about obsolete and > > unused technology. Today this is no more legacy, it's just unused. > > Hi Simone, > > Your opinion is very valuable. As is everyone's. For example, I > received an e-mail about two weeks ago from someone telling me that > LPI is useless to him now because we dropped LILO from LPIC-1.
While I appreciate the relatively comprehensive nature of the LPIC exams, there comes a point where the people behind an exam have to say: "OK, people who pass our exams know enough that they can learn how to use other tools". IMO, that would include not only tools like LILO, but package management tools like emerge, pkgtool, or urpmi. (OTOH, LILO is a central part of the boot process.) I'm not suggesting that LPIC include emerge, pkgtool, or urpmi. I am suggesting that the LPIC certs are good enough; an employer should have confidence that LPIC qualified candidates can quickly learn such tools. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
