GNU/Linux Administration Manuals
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Overview

The GNU/Linux Administration Manuals are designed to accompany practical courses preparing for the LPI examinations. While this material was generally structured to work with a course of 24-32 hours in consecutive 8-hour sessions, it is modularized to also work for shorter or longer sessions, consecutive or otherwise.

The LPIC-1 Manual's material assumes its users will already have:

• Extensive experience (several years) using Intel x86 computers, including a strong knowledge of hardware components and their interaction with basic operating system (OS) components.
• A general knowledge of computing and networking basics such as binary and hexadecimal maths, common units of measure (bytes, KB vs Kb, Mhz, etc), file-system structures, Ethernet and Internet networking operations and hardware, etc.
• More than three cumulative months of practical experience using a GNU/Linux, BSD or Unix OS, logged in and working at the command-line (in a text terminal or console) either locally or remotely.

History

• First release (version 0.0) October 2003. Reviewed by Adrian Thomasset.
• Revised January 2004 after review by Andrew Meredith.
• November 2004. Section on expansion cards added in 'Hardware Configuration' chapter by Adrian Thomasset
• December 2004. Index and mapped objectives added by Adrian Thomasset.
• January 2005. Glossary of terms, command and file review added at end of chapters by Adrian Thomasset
• June 2005. Added new entries in line with recommendations from Sernet LATP process, by Andrew Meredith with additional text supplied by Andrew D Marshall and review by Adrian Thomasset. Section on Debian tools supplied by Duncan Thomson.

Project Goals

The GNU/Linux Administration Manuals primary aim is to provide explanations, examples and exercises for those preparing for the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Certification. Three core sources of criteria guide the project to its primary goals:

• LPI's Exam "Objectives".
• LPI-Approved Training Materials (LATM) criteria.
• The Linux Documentation Project (LDP or TLDP) Author Guide (AG).

Immediate goals for 2010-2011:

• Update GNU Free Documentation License to GFDL v1.3.
• Move source materials to Texinfo format.
• Work with LinuxIT and LPI to identify current requirements of LPIC-1 and LPIC-2.
• Perform gap analysis on 2005 release of GNU/Linux LPI-2 and LPI-2 Administration Manuals.
• Start development of LPIC-3 materials.
• Release updated GNU/Linux LPI-2 and LPI-2 Administration Manuals and a new LPIC-3 Administration Manual.

For status on outstanding tasks see the tasks page.

Contributing

Various roles are currently being opened through the Savannah project for the GNU/Linux Administration Manuals. See the link below for more information.

GNU/Linux Administration Manuals on Savannah

Manual

Visit the GNU/Linux Administration Manuals page here.

Mailing Lists

To keep up on the latest status of the GNU/Linux Administration Manuals, you can join the mailing lists below.

lpi-manuals-commit - CVS commit announcements.

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lpi-manuals-devel - Development discussion for lpi-manuals.

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lpi-manuals-news - Information and Announcements on lpi-manuals.

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lpi-manuals-users - Discussion list for users.

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Availability

The releases are available at http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lpi-manuals/ and its mirrors. (Email the maintainer if you wish to mirror the GNU/Linux Administration Manuals separately.)

Bugs

See this page for information on reporting bugs in the GNU/Linux Administration Manuals.

Resources

See below for some resources relevant to the GNU/Linux Administration Manuals.

• LPI - Projet de Traduction - Projet de traduction des cours pour la préparation des Certifications Linux LPI. (A French translation of the GNU/Linux Administration Manuals.)
• Linux Professional Institute (LPI) - The Linux Professional Institute promotes and certifies essential skills on Linux and Open Source technologies through the global delivery of comprehensive, top-quality, vendor-independent exams.
• Novell LPI - The Certified Linux Administrator program offered by Novell in partnership with LPI, helping SUSE Linux Enterprise administrators get certified.
• LinuxIT - The development and release of the 2003-2005 GNU/Linux Administration Manuals was generously supported by LinuxIT. With new revisions underway with a tentative release date of 2011, LinuxIT has stepped up again to support the project.
• The Linux Documentation Project - Source of the LDP Author Guide which was used as a guideline in writing the GNU/Linux Administration Manuals.

People

• Andrew Meredith, Maintainer/Technical Writer - andrew at anvil dot org
• Adrian Thomasset, Admin/Technical Writer - athomasset at gmail dot com
• Hans-Dieter Kreutzner, Technical Writer - nethansel at cityweb dot de
• Andrew D. Marshall, Technical Writer - admarshall at gmail dot com
• Duncan Thomson, Technical Writer - thom-ci0 at paisley dot ac dot uk