G. Matthew Rice wrote:
> How do people feel about having these sorts of things on the exams?
I think they suck. The main problems with them are that
- it is often very difficult to find out exactly *which* major distribution
the quirk in question belongs to;
- they are liable to change without notice;
- LPI purports to be distribution-independent, so we don't generally go for
distribution-specific quirks. To give an extreme example, you could say
that YaST, for example, is nothing but a big quirk of the SUSE/Novell
distributions, so there's nothing wrong with making it mandatory to know
YaST. At least it is arguably of more practical importance than
»make cloneconfig«.
One might argue that including quirks from *all* major distributions is also a
kind of distribution independence but then we can get into all sorts of
nit-picking arguments as to the precise point where a distribution is major
enough to be entitled to having some of *its* quirks added to the exams. I
say don't go there.
Anselm
(This is my personal opinion and not that of Linup Front GmbH.)
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