On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, martin f krafft wrote: > it's non-profit. thius logically means that SAIR might actually be more > popular and more respected, but i think that this is unfair to LPI. my > experience is that where people know off LPI, it's actually valued > higher than SAIR. LPI has higher standards and expectations, their exams > are harder IMHO than SAIR's. SAIR isn't a piece of cake either, but LPI > tests experience, comfort, and knowledge with/of Linux, whereas i found > SAIR to be testing their curriculum.
Previous, real-world experiance versus being able to do a barf-test, in another words? > i would go for LPI, but then again, SAIR is better known. however, LPI > is soon going to fuse with the Usenix/SAGE[1] certification, then this > will change. Woohoo! > no. but debian is enough of a clean Linux to make either be a perfect > certification for it. both certs require knowledge of RPM though (as > well as DEB). Ouch. Would be nice if RPM didn't suck harder than CAB... -- Baloo