LPIC2 recommended operating system

jan5134 · 06-09-2011, 05:41 AM

Hi,

I'm planning to write the lpic2 soon, but not sure what OS will be better for preparation. I found that Mandriva for LPIC1 was a perfect OS for preparation. But i'm not sure about LPIC2.
Did anyone write the lpic2 that can comment?

Thanks
Jan

cthugr · 06-09-2011, 07:20 AM

Greetings,

From my experience (I have just finished with LPIC-1 and started studying for LPIC-2) you need both a Debian & a RedHat-based distribution, in order to be able to see all the commnand variations, etc. So what I did for LPIC-1 (and probably will do for LPIC-2, also) was to install Debian & Fedora as virtual machines on a system running Ubuntu.

jan5134 · 06-09-2011, 07:36 AM

Hi cthugr,

Thanks for your reply.
I do know that you have to know both, but in LPIC1 they concentrate more on red hat based systems
then Debian. So you can do it on eg Ubuntu but eg Mandriva is preferred.
So i would like to know which is the preferred for LPIC2.

Thanks
Jan

tietack · 06-09-2011, 03:16 PM

If I remember right, the LPIC-2 exams require some understanding of dpkg and apt-* commands (as well as rpm / yum).

So you really need both a Red Hat and a Debian-based distro for those exams. (I used Fedora and Ubuntu).

cthugr · 06-10-2011, 12:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tietack

If I remember right, the LPIC-2 exams require some understanding of dpkg and apt-* commands (as well as rpm / yum).

So you really need both a Red Hat and a Debian-based distro for those exams. (I used Fedora and Ubuntu).

That's the great thing about the LPI exams: they are vendor-neutral, so you can choose whatever distro suites you best from the 2 "families" (RedHat & Debian)!