Re: [lpi-examdev] New Introductory Linux Program from LPI

2011-08-17 Thread Alessandro Selli
G. Matthew Rice ha scritto: On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:48 PM, ross brunson r...@brunson.org wrote: I like some light RE's and focusing on the variations of grep can be a marvelous way to intro someone to RE's without hardcore shovel work, somehow it's more understandable when you can easily

[lpi-examdev] 1.1.3 Understanding Freeware and Licensing

2011-08-17 Thread Alessandro Selli
I read that among the Objectives the following terms are among those considered of prime importance concerning the 1.1.3 objective: GPL, BSD, Creative Commons, Free Software, Open Software, FOSS, FLOSS. Would throwing in a little of UNIX and Free UNIX OSes history be too much? I understand it's

Re: [lpi-examdev] New Introductory Linux Program from LPI

2011-08-17 Thread G. Matthew Rice
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Dimitrios Bogiatzoules t...@lpi.org wrote: Do note that I'm all in favour of increasing awareness of public-key encryption (and, in particular, the problems with it) within the general user community. However, I do not think this makes sense in the context of an

Re: [lpi-examdev] New Introductory Linux Program from LPI

2011-08-17 Thread Anselm Lingnau
Martijn Brekhof wrote: What is the difference between a user, and a teenage school kid or undergraduate student? School kids and undergraduates are a captive audience that can be tortured ;^) Seriously, the stuff in the introductory objectives is nice and important but office/web/email-type

Re: [lpi-examdev] New Introductory Linux Program from LPI

2011-08-17 Thread G. Matthew Rice
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Martijn Brekhof m.brek...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the clarification. However, the following is not clear to me. Hence, don't think »sysadmins vs. users«, think »teenage school kid or undergraduate student«, presumably with a background in using non-Linux

Re: [lpi-examdev] New Introductory Linux Program from LPI

2011-08-17 Thread G. Matthew Rice
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Anselm Lingnau anselm.lingnau+exam...@linupfront.de wrote: I still remember the push back when I included GnuPG in the LPIC-1 objectives.  Even LPIC-1 doesn't have the key publishing/ring and key revocations that it should.  Maybe next update :) Wait, what?