[Gllug] Red Hat versus other qualifications

[Alain Williams]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:18:26AM +0100, Matthew Smith wrote:
> Jose Luis Martinez wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Red Hat, no question about it.
> > 
> > If you can get the LPI to show you are vendor neutral it will not
> > harm, but the reality is that most companies use Red Hat (or CentOS, I
> > personally have seen little else).
> 
> If you're doing it on the home study basis, do you have to use CentOS or 
> will a recent Fedora do?

Yes.
Just make sure that you know how to do things at the command line.
Install the machine choosing which packages, don't take the install defaults for things.
When technical queries come up on this list - make sure that you understand them.

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