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| scott.holman 2004-02-05, 4:56 am |
| i'm looking to broaden my skill base and am looking at studying for a linux cert. the problem is that i have know idea what cert is best, so i have 2 questions.
which cert is most sort after in the market place?
what is the best cert to learn the most from?
thanks | |
| bsdboy 2004-02-05, 4:28 pm |
| rhce | |
| scott.holman 2004-02-06, 4:20 am |
| thanks bsdboy
how about lpi certs? they seem to be less vendor specific. So is rh the most widely implemented corporate linux? | |
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| none of the cert is useful to learn from.
they are to certified you in areas they want to address, not teach you how to use it.
pick up a linux book, install it, and worry about becoming *certified* later.
linux cert in general is a waste. no one care about certification in the *nix world and the only one that I would not be ashame of mentioning to be certified in would be rhce... others are just poseur certs inviting ppl to laugh at you if you flash it.
anyway, regarding what's most in place. what would we know. so utilize google and a little investigating skill.
www.linuxiso.org to look at what distribution is available. identify the larger distros.
go to their site, look around, see how well they are run.
you will notice many of them have links to *partners*. identify them, perhaps do some research at these partners sites.
look at some web statistics.
so... let me narrow it down for you
europe, suse
us, rhce
asia, turbolinux
http://www.turbolinux.com/customers/
http://www.suse.com/us/partner/sear...ners/index.html
http://www.redhat.com/solutions/partners/
now that's just the commercial linux, in the *nix world, old school unix are very much preferred over linux, still has a large market share. you have probably hear of things like solaris from sun, aix from ibm etc. and prolly hear of a little thing call bsd.
now, we can look at some statistics, a well known place for IT dudes is netcraft
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html
see those bsd? I once had a discussion with ccietobe about the relevance of uptime, so here is most requested
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/requested.html
or http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/isp.avg.html
one of the advantage of linux is that you have the choice... I would say nothing is more boring to see yet another RH goon, they are no more refershing or less brain dead than the microsoft pros.... so pursue what you want. the in thing now is gentoo linux, rh etc is 2nd tier in term of geekiness and would prolly identify you as the new breed of certified but practically useless IT pros.
download all distro, install all, pick one that you like and excell in it b4 you worry about being certified.
I would pick someone from installfest or a LUG b4 some certified linux dude anytime. | |
| scott.holman 2004-02-06, 6:03 am |
| thanks for that, very helpful.
some good links and has pointed me in the right direction.
i've used solaris and sco but a long long time ago ... maybe 10 years!! and have been mainly netware/ms since then i've used rh a little and installed suse last night .... but haven't had much time to investigate it yet.
you seem to have been around unix a while, what is your opinion on the linux versus bsd debate?
again, thanks for the advice | |
| s2kfan 2004-02-08, 11:33 am |
| How many exams for RHCE? |
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