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Novell's Certified Linux Engineer

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the not-a-bad-idea dept.

AEnertia writes "Novell have been quick in moving ahead with their recent aquisition of SuSE. I was browsing their site when I found this page describing their new certification (CLE) under their certifications programs. Looks like they are positioning their well respected certification program for their newest asset."

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  1. Re:Wow! by corbettw · · Score: 5, Informative

    or for only $1250 you can sign up for *my* course where we even show you how to build your own software from source code with the magic of "configure, make, make install"

    Egads, you've never worked in an environment with more than one server, have you? If I caught one of my guys doing that, I'd either fire him (if at my civilian job) or Article 15 him (if at my Reserve unit). Never, never, ever run "configure,make,make install", take a few extra steps and build an actual package, *then* install the software. This way you can:
    * back out easily. 'rpm -e' or 'pkgrm' are easier than grepping through the Makefiles for all of the installed programs and piping that to 'find / -name $1 -exec rm' or whatever.
    * copy the package to other servers and install quickly and easily. This allows you create once, install anywhere, and you can even script the installation process.
    * avoid overwriting existing files. Any decent package manager will complain if the target file(s) already exists.

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  2. Good morning by haraldm · · Score: 5, Informative

    This has been available for at least 6 months now. Sleep well.

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  3. Re:Good for them by t0ny · · Score: 2, Informative
    1. you can set printers using Active Directory 'policies', which will replicate to all the machines you specify in that domain. BTW, there is a lot of new functionality with AD; Im not quite an expert on it yet, because Im still stuck supporting a lot of NT4 machines, and regular Domains; people are scare to migrate to AD for some bizarre reason (IMO too many consultants are just fool companies into thinking it's a big expensive undertaking).

    2. Windows is extremely well documented; I never lack for reference material, and TechNet is often the first and last place I need to look up a problem (but their seach feature could be more robust, to put it politely).

    3. The Windows 2000/XP/2003 tests use more scenario questions. Its not a written test, but since A-B-C-D only gives you a 25% chance of being right, its hard to get an 80% by random chance or 'learning' the questions; many testing sites also use adaptive tests, which get progressively harder as you answer correct questions, but higher scores can only be achieved this way; also, missing softball questions will easily fail you on an adaptive test.

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  4. Re:Good for them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    It is a big expensive undetaking if you want to take advantage of all AD perks you need to upgrade all your desktops to 2000 or xp.

  5. Re:Good for them by ssstraub · · Score: 2, Informative

    1. you can set printers using Active Directory 'policies', which will replicate to all the machines you specify in that domain.

    But then the problem has now become dependant on the AD backend, the user's machine being part of that domain, the machine name itself, (often) the user's account, etc...
    Where as with cups config, all you'd have to do is copy and paste some text...which seems much easier.

    In my experience on our AD domain, printers aren't fun. I would love being able to copy & paste configs.