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Red Hat Pushes For CC Certification By Year's End

Posted by timothy on from the stampede-of-approval dept.

Ridgelift writes "This article indicates Red Hat Linux is about to receive certification under the Common Criteria (CC) Scheme worldwide. This has been a long road for Red Hat, and 'once successfully certified in the UK, Red Hat products will be recognised as certified and approved by information security agencies from all 19 countries participating in the Common Criteria program.' This means Red Hat will sit alongside Sun Solaris, HP-UX and IBM's AIX."

19 of 183 comments (clear)

  1. REGIME CHANGE STARTS AT HOME! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Plant Bush back in Texas!

    1. Re:REGIME CHANGE STARTS AT HOME! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      We don't want him back in Texas!

  2. I went where I liked by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I slept with who I liked

  3. About certs by segment · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know I ramble on about a lot of things here so here is another rant. Is it me or are certs like so blown out of proportion it's not even funny? Don't get me wrong, I think they have their place somewhere, but as for counting on someone certified to actually have a clue is an altogether different case.

    For those on mailing lists (I'm on isp-lists*, sec*focus*, nanog, sunmanagers, etc), how many times do you see someone with a sig with all their grewvy certs asking dumb assed questions that any good sysadmin/secadmin/network admin could answer? Come on I know I'm not the only one. I've seen plenty of people in the industry with certs galore who didn't know squat, I've read about CCIE's who didn't even know the command line syntax to null route.

    Maybe I should pick up the books and just take my certs for the hell of it, but I see no need to. I make money, and haven't had problems with anything. If I need something done and I don't know, then I'm learning it for my own sake immediately. I've never felt the need to get a cert, so am I rambling on... Or... Are certs like soooooo yesterday?

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    1. Re:About certs by silas_moeckel · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      OK I'm a bit biased as a CCIE but your confusing certs with experience certs have become just a test to make sure your somewhat compotent. A good hiring manager takes them for what they are just a test that shows you have a minimal ammout of education.

      Now the CCIE tract is more for thery and for me it was exposure to old school antiquated techs like IPX, frame relay and RIP to name a few. Many a CCIE spends there days working out thery and big broad strokes of a Network Arch not plunking away at a keyboard (we get flunkies for that, what did you thinkt he CCNA and CCNE's were for :) thats why your average shop dosent have any CCIE's on staff but calls them in when they make big changes.

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    2. Re:About certs by bersl2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I would say that any kind of complex certification is highly overrated. CC, MSCE, RHCE, all it means is that you learned about a system in abstract. Whoop-de-doo!

      Now CPR certification, that's an important one.

  4. /. has no sense of humor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    C'mon mods live a little!

  5. Why is this Troll modded up? by bogie · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nt, but if you mods can't figure why this is a total troll you need to have you points taken away.

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  6. Re:The Industrial Factory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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  7. Re:Windows 2000 is certified as well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just read in the news today that writer Stephen King, 56, has been hospitalized with pneumonia. Whatever you may think about his work nobody can deny his influence on our culture. Truly an American icon. He will be missed.

  8. ur right man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I agree absolutely.

    They think "But I installed gentoo myself and I set up apache on my home dsl line, I should be a sysadmin making 1000,000 dollars not these paper MCSE bastards that don't know nothing"

    LOL, Sorry but I've met windows admins that will smoke you at system administration. They are smarter than you so just accept that and go sit down you little shits. People with masters in CS get an MCSE and go become a windows admin to make a lot of money. You think your little hobbiest weekend tinkerer ass can show them up? Please, you ass clowns don't know shit. Oh wow you routed you mom's mac through your mandrake box, WOW, we're fucking impressed can I hire you?! I'll give you 70k to start! HAHAHHA. Piss off wankers.

    Plus I've seen an employer see some hotshot punk at the help desk talk shit about the senior admins and their certs so they actually paid for him to go take the test and what happened the fucker failed it and went back to answering the fucking phone cuz he didn't acutally know shit. Maybe you can impress your know nothing friends on IRC or IM but in the real world that won't cut it anymore than an MCSE will ok.

  9. JET is the gayest fucking band ever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I hope you get AIDS and die.

  10. Re:Windows 2000 is certified as well by Bombcar · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Hmm.

    John86,

    As a little hint, you may want to NOT assume superiority when lecturing someone with a THREE DIGIT UUID!



    That is all.

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  11. Re:HEY ALL U GOD DAMN ASS CLOWNS READ THIS B4 U PO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  12. SCOX will be pissed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    David Boise, the soon to be new CEO of SCOX,
    after he plants a hacket in the back of
    ex-male prostitude Darl McBride, will have
    a hissy.

    David, "I am the FEURER! Bow before ME!"

    Darl, "[sounds of slurping and sucking as
    he gives 'head' one last time]".

    David, "AH HA!. You are a JEW! Therefore
    I kill you." [sound of a battle ax cleaving
    flesh.]

    David, "They will PAY! I am the MASTER RACE!"

    Toodles.

  13. Re:Windows 2000 is certified as well by kir · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey... I've got a three digit UID, and while I've been around a while (4 or 5 years I think), I'm not sure it really has anything to do with how long one has been a /. weenie. Maybe it does? But I've not seen anything that says so.

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  14. Re:Windows 2000 is certified as well by JK+Master-Slave · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hay, I've been on this site since early '99. It's just that handles need to be replaced from time to time. Every account that I've ditched has had the +1 bonus before I ditched it, btw. You get to feeling after awhile like a 'personality' or whatever, so you ditch and replace.

    This particular account is less than three days old, I'll grant you. It'll have +1 privledges within a month.

  15. Re:Yeah right... by fucksl4shd0t · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Excuse me, I've got sarcasm dripping from my chin...

    ...so I won't tell anybody about my sarcastic dick.

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  16. Re:Windows 2000 is certified as well by JediTrainer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    (sidewalk for the en_US folks)

    I'm en_CA you insensitive clod! (and we use 'sidewalk' too)

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