DPKG vs. RPM in LPIC 101 exam

[Christopher Sawtell]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:57, Matthew Rice wrote:
> Ted Jordan <ted at jordanteam.com> writes:
> > i almost failed the first exam because of this.  I had
> > never HEARD of dpkg...i thot it was a variation of
> > tar xvzf .... ; make ; blah blah blah
>
> My understanding is that the rpm/dpkg questions used to be weighted so that
> you wouldn't fail if you only knew one system.
>
> > I wish somewhere on the lpi site they would state the difference.
>
> Well, the good news is that the DPKG and RPM questions have been broken
> out. When you go to write 101 now, you get a choice of a DPKG or RPM
> centric exam.

To add to the confusion. :-)

It's my belief that Gentoo is now a demonstrably viable and effective Linux 
distribution. It would be nice if that dist. could be made an option.
What are the chances of that happening some time in the future?

Thanks.

http://www.gentoo.org

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