On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 12:31 -0700, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 9/17/08, MJang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Actually, aren't there enterprise software packages,
> > e.g. Oracle stuff "certified" only for certain
> > components such as kernels and filesystems?
> 
> Yes.  We already talked about IHV/ISV (Independent
> Hardware/Software Vendor) "certification" of 3rd
> party products.  We're going circular here.  @-ppp

I apologize for the reiteration. The original question from Andy was
appropriate distros for his classes. 

Lots of people jumped in with their favorite distros, and details. I got
lost in that too.

Until April 2009, the LPI exams are based on old objectives. Thus the
distos best suited for exam prep would be those developed back in the
same time frame (2005, I think). But LPI covers both RPM and DEB
packages, so at least one distro from each world is needed.

However, if the class also is intended to prep the student for the real
world, I believe enterprise "quality" distros are well suited for the
purpose. CentOS is used by a number of businesses too.

OTOH, if the class is also intended to prep the student as a bleeding
edge developer (or some other bleeding edge function), then the latest
version of a distro such as Fedora and Ubuntu is appropriate.

Thanks,
Mike

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