This is good!!! > G. Matthew Rice wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I've started mentoring two of my kids through the LPIC-1/2 programme >> and I'm trying to think of some projects to give them that are LPIC-1 >> level. >> >> Aside from my joking claim that you aren't a real sys admin until you >> write your own back up scripts, I'm hoping to give them projects that >> would stretch their LPIC-1 learning. >> >> I'm also thinking of having them volunteer at Debian and Fedora to >> create some packages for orphaned/new sw, too. That'll take them well >> beyond the LPIC-1 material, though. (OT: Does anyone think that >> building packages is appropriate LPIC-2 material?) > > Have them build their own distro. > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/ > > Starting students learning the basics is important. If you don't know > what is happening when you make that selection in the gui, you'll be > limited to that tool. > > Understand what the instructions are doing. > > Read the boot scripts. Follow the startup from grub to the boot prompt. > Understand the configuration files. Use a text editor. We teach kids > to read before we ask them to write. Do the same for scripts. > > Compare LFS with Debian, RH, and Ubuntu. > > -- Bruce > _______________________________________________ > lpi-examdev mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev >
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