On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 20:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > 1. Where is line that says something is now deprecated and is subject > to correct identification only?
To start, I would first say we would require it to be on a previous LPI objective revision. Not everything that is in a previous revision will be so tagged though. In this case, LILO makes a good example. > We could use your 3 sigma method (a good method for use in the real > world), but all that really seems to accomplish is avoiding the > question "Should this be in the Objectives?" to the different question > "Is this deprecated?" I think it solves the problem better, more refined, more defined. The same could be said used for future technologies/implementations as well, but I won't go there. That is more difficult to define. > 2. From my point of view, the correct approach for an LPIC-1 when confronted > with something unusual is "Google it". LILO is sufficiently rarely > encountered in real life that we can demand graduates can actually do this > successfully. While I agree it is outside the "3 sigma" realm, it is still used by a couple of distributions as the default, and an alternative by several others. I was just trying to find a medium for a very select set of deprecated technologies that were covered in previous LPI objectives. If anything, we don't even need to test them, but could merely touch on the fact that they were in previous objectives and older training materials may still cover them (and would be out-of-date). Maybe they don't even go in the objectives, but a "supplementary" could be produced. Again, there are many considerations for this. But I leave that consideration to others. -- Bryan J Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance Mugshot Homepage: http://mugshot.org/person?who=58wDcGKx6NcZAb --------------------------------------------------------------- Fission Power: An Inconvenient Solution _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
