RE: Urgent : Linux Certification
Joris,
I am currently studying for the Linux Professional Institute (LPI)
102 "final" exam. The exams are TOUGH but I like their idea/concept. LPI
is actually distribution independent for most areas. They accomplish this
by retreating to the least common denominator - as an example to add a new
user within the LPI philosophy use;
useradd
The reason for this technique is that all Linux distributions
understand useradd. Now you can go anywhere and function within any Linux
distribution. My study references go on to say you can edit the /etc/passwd
file and manually enter a new user - wow, now we are down in the weeds.
Not a bad idea at all though, and the things behind the scene you
must remember, create the users home directory - don't forget to set the
ownership to the new user, don't forget to set the password, etc., etc.,
means you understand the interworkings that GUI's articulate for you.
Now of course when you get to a production environment go ahead and
use the distribution's GUI if they have one. They are intuitively pleasing
but you have a better understanding having done it manually when first
starting out. If you learned to drive on a manual shift car, then going to
an automatic is EASY -- the reverse is NOT true.
Note that the 102 exam test on both rpm and (dpkg, dselect, apt,
apt-get). rpm maps to Red Hat but those last four (4) things map to the
Debian distribution so being an LPI certified person draws you into the
Debian camp. I run Red Hat 6.2 at my private residence and Debina 2.2.17
here in my office by simply rotating my body 60 degrees to the left to a
Debian dedicate Micron Pentium III machine.
It is most interesting to contrast the distributions, in Debian it
is /etc/modules.conf where as in Red Hat it is /etc/conf.modules - they both
do the same thing just a different naming convention.
In a former position I found myself in a Sun Microsystems, Solaris
environment and through a combination of work and study I became a Sun
Microsystems, Solaris 7, Certified Systems Administrator. This means one
knows Sun's Admin Tool and Soltis Disk Suite, both slick GUI's proprietary
to Sun.
On my next assignment I was buried in a Hewlett Packard, HP-UX
environment, now those slick Sun GUI's don't work there - rather it is
Systems Administration Manager (SAM) in HP-UX parlances. So I went on to
become a Hewlett Packard, HP-UX, 11.x Certified Systems Administrator too.
I thought about the Red Hat Linux certification and it is reported
to be good. --- BUT I think LPI has an outstanding idea (a better
mousetrap) as there are so many Linux distributions - I have an old list
that shows 83 flavors of Linux!! An LPI person can hit the ground within
any Linux distribution and be productive on day one.
John D. Holp
-----Original Message-----
From: MaD dUCK [mailto:madduck@madduck.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 1:06 PM
To: Joris Lambrecht
Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
Subject: Re: Urgent : Linux Certification
also sprach Joris Lambrecht (on Wed, 07 Feb 2001 12:39:57PM +0100):
> What organistation should i look to for such courses ? I'm currently
looking at
> www.lpi.org but seem to remember there's a lot of criticism about this ?
mh. well, i am affiliated with lpi so i can't argue for them, but i
don't recall critcism. sure, lpi probably isn't renowned as much as
the RHCE, but who would want to use redhat anyway? for debian, lpi
seems to me to be clearly the cert of choice.
martin
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