LPI Planning Desktop Linux Cert
8/6/2003 -- The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) announced late today that is planning to launch a desktop certification.
"We are taking a community lead by calling for volunteers and others to step forward to help develop a Linux desktop certification program," LPI's president Evan Leibovitch said in a prepared statement announcing the new title. "The desktop is ready for primetime even in professional environments. It's not just a hacker's toy anymore. Companies and users are ready to teach and use it and we believe a certification program targeted to the desktop is going to help."
The organization did not put a time frame on the project. It is seeking support from the community as well as prospective partnerships to develop the title.
LPI currently offers a two-tiered Linux networking certification program, LPIC Level One and LPIC Level Two. Each consists of two proctored exams.
More information on LPI's certification program can be found at http://www.lpi.org/.  -Becky Nagel
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There are 20  user Comments for “LPI Planning Desktop Linux Cert”
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| 8/19/03: Anonymous says: |
Hey slik it was at beta form at the universities, free shareware, but hey you would not know that, but hey dream on captains. |
| 8/19/03: Anonymous says: |
Oh by the way here some history for all you smart asses out there...It was 1991, and the ruthless agonies of the cold war was gradually coming to an end. There was an air of peace and tranquility that prevailed in the horizon. In the field of computing, a great future seemed to be in the offing, as powerful hardware pushed the limits of the computers beyond what anyone expected. But still, something was missing. And it was the none other than the Operating Systems, where a great void seemed to have appeared. For one thing, DOS was still reigning supreme in its vast empire of personal computers. Bought by Bill Gates from a Seattle hacker for $50,000, the bare bones operating system had sneaked into every corner of the world by virtue of a clever marketing strategy. PC users had no other choice. Apple Macs were better, but with astronomical prices that nobody could afford, they remained a horizon away from the eager millions. The other dedicated camp of computing was the Unix world. But Unix itself was far more expensive. In quest of big money, the Unix vendors priced it high enough to ensure small PC users stayed away from it. The source code of Unix, once taught in universities courtesy of Bell Labs, was now cautiously guarded and not published publicly. To add to the frustration of PC users worldwide, the big players in the software market failed to provide an efficient solution to this problem. A solution seemed to appear in form of MINIX. It was written from scratch by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, a Dutch professor who wanted to teach his students the inner workings of a real operating system. It was designed to run on the Intel 8086 microprocessors that had flooded the world market. As an operating system, MINIX was not a superb one. But it had the advantage that the source code was available. Anyone who happened to get the book 'Operating System' by Tanenbaum could get hold of the 12,000 lines of code, written in C and assembly language. For the first time, an aspiring programmer or hacker could read the source codes of the operating system, which to that time the software vendors had guarded vigorously. A superb author, Tanenbaum captivated the brightest minds of computer science with the elaborate and immaculately lively discussion of the art of creating a working operating system. Students of Computer Science all over the world poured over the book, reading through the codes to understand the very system that runs their computer. And one of them was Linus Torvalds. But I guess most of you all do not know that! |
| 8/21/03: lowney says: |
Frenquely, i did not know the last part, but i too knew the first. Silicon Valley ( the movie ) is a good place to start learning history. As i said, with good IT pro's someday linux will reach desktop end users. We need to be trained and learn on our own. If the IT are not |
| 8/21/03: lowney says: |
are not capable of such things, linux will not reach desktop. After the server market, it will reach the other markets. Ibm is helping, i think if one of the big comp are ready to play with "small" OS like some say, they must be taken seriously. |
| 8/23/03: England from United kingdom says: |
Why all the bitching on here???????? Can we not have some constructive replys, instead of all the bitching. |
| 8/26/03: MonkeyChow says: |
mo' linux |
| 8/26/03: BoBo says: |
Linux has .05% of the corp. desktop market so this is a really useful cert. |
| 8/30/03: Makuti from Tanzania says: |
you people out there, my take on the suject is this: I am in Tanzania, in Africa, and here the per-capita GDP is $245 a year, meaning the average Joe earns that in a year. I have been in IT for a long time, mostly shifting boxes (selling PC's) and this the only country I know what all IT products (hardware and software)can be imported FREE of any tax, duty, VAT, etc. But I tell you 99 of 100 people will say 'just gimme the box, I will install the OS myself' meaning they will go and install either a pirate copy or a 'free' OS like Linux, not because they want to pirate, they can barely afford a PC, they cannot afford to pay for a genuine issue proprietary OS like win98 and Office (win2000 and Xp are out of the question) and Linux has grown by leaps and bounds, on the desktop, especially since redhat 7.2 and staroffice 5.2. A 'network' in this country is 10 PC's in an internet cafe. Anything more is few and far between, although some places have 100's. Let the certs come I say, we need people who can prove they know Linux, if only on the desktop(sort of like MOUS in Linux) so they get jobs in offices that have PC's running linux. I believe this would apply in most of Africa, indeed many parts of the 3rd world. I have done my CCNA, high enough for this place, going for RHCE soon (RHCT at least)and MCSE but I think most people will benefit a lot if they can say to the boss, install Linux on the next PC you buy, I can use it and its free...... |
| 9/2/03: Becky Nagel from Editor, CertCities.com says: |
Hi Makuti -- Very interesting perspective; thanks for sharing what its like there! |
| 9/29/03: Renegade says: |
I'm happy you people are my competition because the entire bulk of you are absolute f*cking idiots. The very first beta of linux came out in 91, it was NOT common until 95. If you were involved in linux that far back why would you be concerned about some "certification"? i cannot believe the IT industry is under seige from half wits like yourself. It takes YEARS to learn a *nix OS man, so drop your dreams of 60K a year with a 3 month course. |
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