LINUX PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE

   LINUX CERTIFICATION PROJECT TO RELEASE SECOND EXAM
 More than 140 training centers now offer LPI-targeted education

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 5, 2000

TORONTO, Ontario:  The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) announces
completion of development of its second exam, and expects the
exam to be made available worldwide in mid-April.

The exam, named "102", is the second of two exams which
candidates are required to pass in order to obtain LPI Level 1
certification (LPIC-1). Release is expected in time for Linux
Business Expo, which takes place at Chicago s McCormick Center,
April 17 to 20th.

"With the release of exam 102, candidates will finally be able
to take both exams necessary to complete level 1,"  said Dan York,
President of the LPI Board of Directors.  "We've had an excellent
response to the first exam, and we're looking forward to issuing our
first level one certificates."

Together with the first LPI exam, 101, the second exam tests
candidates on basic Linux knowledge, and is delivered worldwide
through the network of over 1,700 Virtual University Enterprises (VUE)
testing centers. Full details on the objectives of the exam, are
located on LPI s website at http://www.lpi.org/p-obj-102.html.
While candidates must pass both 101 and 102 exams to obtain 
Level 1 certification, they can be taken in any order.

"As a non-profit community organization, LPI has always sought
to provide a certification program that is complete, defensible
and well-respected, while keeping cost and inconvenience to a
minimum," said Director of Exam Development Scott Murray. "We
are pleased that we re able to offer the first level of
certification after only two exams. But candidates can be
assured that those two exams will not be passable by people who
do not know Linux."

"TurboLinux is committed to the LPI certification program for
Linux," said John Terpstra, vice president of community relations for
TurboLinux. "We're pleased to see the first complete set of exams to
qualify for LPI level 1." 			

"As a Platinum Sponsor and active participant in LPI, SGI Global Education
is pleased to support LPI's superior, distribution-neutral Linux
certification program," says Roger Connolly, Director, SGI Global
Education. "We're pleased that with the completion of both Level 1
exams we can offer solid certification to the students that take our
(SGI's) LPI-targeted classes worldwide--available in classrooms and,
soon, over the Internet."

"The business acceptance of Linux hinges on the credibility of
vendor-independent professional certification," said Patt Montgomery,
general manager of Linuxcare University. "We support LPI's efforts to
provide a fair, affordable, and authoritative professional certification
program for Linux.  The release of the second exam will bring the Linux
community one step closer to this goal."

LPI President York also notes that more than 140 training sites
registered at the LinTraining web-site at  http://www.lintraining.com
now target LPI certification in their educational programs.  "We are
delighted to see this level of support, but we re not surprised," 
York said.  "As the only vendor-neutral, non-profit organization
focusing on Linux certification, we ve built up a considerable
community of support. LPI is pleased that people interested in
training for our certification have such broad range of options."

About LPI...

The Linux Professional Institute is a community project to develop 
professional certification for the Linux operating system. Established 
as a nonprofit organization focused on defining distribution-neutral and
vendor-neutral certification standards, LPI involves a unique blend of
hundreds of volunteers and professionals in many different capacities and
encourages public involvement through mailing lists and its website of
www.lpi.org. LPI's multi-level program of exams is administered globally
through test centers operated by Virtual University Enterprises (VUE), a
division of NCS (Nasdaq:NLCS). Major financial sponsorship of LPI is 
from Platinum Sponsors of Caldera Systems (Nasdaq:CALD),IBM (NYSE:IBM),
Linuxcare, Maxspeed, SGI (NYSE:SGI), SuSE Linux AG and TurboLinux as
well as the  Gold Sponsors Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP) and Wave
Technologies  (Nasdaq:WAVT). More information can be obtained at
http://www.lpi.org

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States 
and other countries. 

"Linux Professional Institute" and the LPI logo are trademarks of Linux 
Professional Institute, Inc.

CONTACT:

  Dan York, President, Board of Directors
  +1-603-264-0129 (mobile) or 1-603-268-0691,  dan@lpi.org

  Evan Leibovitch, Director of Marketing
  +1-416-998-3914 (mobile) or 1-416-410-9342,  evan@lpi.org