On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 11:28, duncan brown wrote: > Chadley Wilson said: > > > My company has decided to send me for Linux training. The boss wants me > > to do the relevant training to bring our company up to speed with IBM > > and and other major PC brands that are selling Linux on there PCs for > > end users. > > http://www.lpi.org > > it's harder than rhce, not distribution centric, and well respected from > what i understand. > > -d I concur, however, I would strongly suggest in picking an accredited training source from their Website. I made the mistake of buying a program from Smart Certify Direct (http://www.smartcertify.com/) Stay away from them!!!! These people rooked me out of $800 for a learning program that can *only* be run under Windows, I.E. and Microsoft's own version of Java. I was lied to by their sales people that this program would run under *any* Java running platform, under Linux, and that it had all the same on-line classroom features as their other programs. It's a really terrible working program, buggy at best. It also makes very little sense to be learning the most technical aspects of running Linux in Windows. IMHO. I couldn't even get through it because of its kludge interface and inability to allow me to bookmark important areas. I could go on an on about why they are not the people to do this through, but with this strong warning comes a whole-hearted recommendation that your first certification be one that is not distribution concentric, as Duncan has already stated. Hopefully, you will see the value of a LPI certification, but through one of LPI's certified sources. Paul
