[Linux-aus] Ubuntu Certification (was: lca2005 CD)
Martin Pool
mbp at sourcefrog.net
Wed Apr 5 13:24:01 UTC 2006
On 5 Apr 2006, at 14:42 , Steve Walsh wrote:
>
>> I reckon it'd be great if more distros supported, assisted and
>> improved the
>> LPI effort. :-)
Yes.
> And therein lies another problem. How can Distro's without
> SugarDaddy or
> Company assistance improve the LPI effort. If you were to go to
> Gentoo,
> Slackware, DSL or FreeBSD and say to them "Hi, in your copious free
> time,
> can you guys work with us to write a certification test for your
> distro so
> we can insert a testing into the LPI stream ASAP?", I can image the
> response
> would be a resounding silence, followed by a some rather colourful
> language.
> I know there are groups like the FreeBSD and the Gentoo foundation,
> but I'm
> sure paying people to work for a long period of time to create the
> required
> tests.
Gentoo (for one) write excellent documentation of other kinds. I
don't see anything essential about certification tests that means
they can only be written by company-backed distributions. (Pretty
much every time someone says "intellectual product $foo can only be
produced by a corporation" they're eventually proved wrong.)
I don't know if just giving the test material to LPI would be enough
for them to start using it.
Perhaps the cause is this: employers who care about certification
also tend to like company-backed distributions?
--
Martin
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