Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
Having flavour specific certs will cost more in time and money, but I don't see how we can have a cert that has value that tries to cover all the *BSDs. (I mentioned several reasons on this list several months ago.)
There's a lot more diversity amongst Linux distributions than flavours of BSD. If LPI could pull off a distribution-neutral exam that is endosed by Slackware, Mandriva, and Debian, the creation of something mutually acceptable to the BSD variants (or at least their users) should be much easier. There are fewer BSD variants and (at least it appears to me that) the variations between them are less than exist between, say, the Ubuntu and Novell Linux distributions.
Also consider that you don't have to redo the whole exam to allow for major variations. In LPI exam 101, there was an objective that you needed to know one of the two major Linux packaging systems (RPM or DPKG). Candidates could choose, at exam-taking time, whether they wanted their exam to have RPM or DPKG questions. It was significantly more expensive and complex to create and administer, but far less so than creating entirely separate exams (or programs).
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