On Saturday 05 January 2002 08:23 pm, dek wrote:
| ooh  the X questions were the killer to me.. I NEVER really used X windowing
| system and it asked me several of them ( ahh i was scratching my head when
| it asked me how to resize an xterm using -geometry or something hahaha)

When I took it... Like Orly, I was stumped on the NIS questions.  And like 
Dek, I was stumped on Gnome-specific and XFree86 stuff.

I like the questions being diverse and trying to touch up on all aspects of 
Linux from Definition to Administration.  What I don't like about it is that 
it follows software popularity as the de facto when choosing the questions.  
I'm speaking in terms on BIND, Apache, SQUID, etc.  These I think should not 
be included in Linux General as they cater to specific software.  IMHO it 
would be ok though to ask stuff about DNS, HTTP, Proxying in general.  My 
only reason is that _most_ software (even if it's custom made) can be made to 
work good as long as the admin understands it and software is a matter of 
preference and not of popularity.  Win vs Linux is a shining example of this 
as most of us are advocates of the least popular of the two, desktop-wise 
that is.

-- 
Deds Castillo
Infiniteinfo Philippines
http://www.infiniteinfo.com

Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '86, Windows '95,'98,2K
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