I’ve just received news that I passed both my LPI level 2 exams I recently wrote at LinuxWorld. That rocks!
Feel free to verify my certs here.
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Wednesday saw me writing my level 2 LPI exams at LinuxWorld in Sandton, Johannesburg, which gave me the perfect opportunity to dash around the expo (the conference was, unfortunately, outside of my budget).
So we’ll start with the Futurex portion…
Boring. Boring. Boring. I don’t think that barcode printers or scanners are the future. I don’t think that Telkom is the future – their stand was particularly intimidating. I don’t think that iBurst capped 3gig wireless internet is the future. I don’t think that CD-labelling is the future. In fact, CD-Labelling has lost its market completely to the magic marker, with the exception of a few special cases (e.g. burnt pirate copies etc). No, Futurex was not the future.
On to LinuxWorld…
Here it seemed the guys were a bit cramped for space if anything – the Novell pavilion was jam packed with many different partners providing various Linux services, but there was little structure, and I don’t consider a distro running on a laptop to be any sort of demo. Unfortunately I did not manage to get my hands on a Novell Desktop CD, although those who were there earlier got copies.
My loot for the day turned out to be ImpiLinux (a distro I cannot install because doing so violates the GPL), an IBM presentation CD and one other arbitrary CD. I did however manage to get a Shuttleworth Foundation ‘build your own tux’, an Obsidian Systems executive propeller-toy, and if I’d had CDs on me could have burnt to my hearts content on the Freedom Toaster. Ok yes, to tell the truth I was practically in-your-face-take-it-or-die’d by the Impi guy – a bit of an aggressive marketer I guess. I walked away a little shaken.
I think the most interesting thing for me was how many Linux startups are now pushing to create another bubble. Time will tell how many survive, but these guys are leading the pack, which is not a bad thing. I guess another part of my attitude is that being halfway through LPI level 2, there isn’t much these guys can do to excite me in the Free Software space – I’ve excited myself enough, and blogs and sourceforge do the rest.
Ultimately I went to do what I aimed to do – I wrote my Level 2 LPI exams and time will soon tell how successful that was.
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LPI Level 1 Certified
Great news!
I’m ecstatic to announce that I passed my LPIC Level 1 Certification and will be looking into Level 2 in the near future. More info about LPI is here.
You can verify my certification here. Just plug in my LPIID : LPI000076500 (a styling LPI number, isn’t it?) and my verification code: nke8af4ju3.
Well, I’m here at Smartsource (in the Novell building at Morningside Wedge Office Park) where they are hosting a mass Linux LPI certification event – a conspiracy to take over the world (ok, maybe just South Africa for now) dreamt up by the folks at Afribiz.
I’ve just finished LPIC102, and did LPIC101 this morning, and well, here’s hoping its a success – I’m pretty confident but don’t want to get ahead of myself. It’ll be great to add a decent Linux certification to my CV though, especially considering it has been my platform of choice for a number of years. Next stop – LPI Level 2 Certification.
The whole event is being operated by the Shuttleworth Foundation – they are the official LPI partner in South Africa, and things looks good. There’s a whole lot more detail here.
Also had a good chat with Jason Norwood-Young from Tectonic – South Africa’s first open source themed media publication. Sounds like they are caught up in exciting times, and I might even get a few of my musings published in their magazine in the near future – looking forward to that.
And now, after a week spent crammed in the books trying to become a Linux guru I think it is time for me to go hunt down some beer…