BSD Certification Group Releases Roadmap

Jeremy C. Reed writes "The BSD Certification Group announced on Thursday the release of their certification program roadmap. This publication introduces the Group's planned BSD system administrator certifications and the construction of the certification program. The press release is available, as well as the certification roadmap."

Comments

Neutral Certification

[MadX]

I really do think that this will be a good thing.

I have my LPI-2 certification, and I believe the neutral-vendor type certifications are really the best. It serves as a base from which to work. For the Employer there is a twofold bonus.

1) The Person is willing to prove himself/herself that they are able to use the system (without testing by the employer) to a certain degree.

2) The candidate was willing to study. This I see often where a person does not try to further themselves within their field of expertise, yet expect to walk into another job, and expect the employer to know that they are totally capable. There has to be a starting point - and this is it for the x-BSD's

I would certainly see myself doing this certification.

the point is.....

[amodm]

does it help them gain more popularity or market share?

I believe if someone is installing BSD on a company infrastructure, he/she would already be knowing enough about it to run it.

The reason why I say this is that BSD is a good OS, but to believe that its a good OS (in the flood of linux), one has to know BSD well enough.

IMHO, hiring ceritified professionals help when someone installs something about which they don't know enough.

Re:Who cares?

[Shanep]

OS X wouldn't be half the operating system if it didn't have its BSD kernel (though they did quite a bit of hacking on it).

Actually, from all the sources I have read, OSX consists of a Mach kernel, FreeBSD userland utils and NeXT interface. All of which, very seriously tweaked and hacked. However from the way Apple writes about the FreeBSD portion, it seems that they may have rolled some FreeBSD into the Mach kernel. Then again when Apple said their new Mighty Mouse was touch-sensitive, I interpretted that to mean that their new Mighty Mouse was touch-sensitive. How silly of me. ; )

BTW, I like Apple hardware and software, so I'm not trying to bash Apple too baddly.

BSDs are still alive because their code is needed to be alive. If you commit to a BSD, it's practically public domain; take it and do as you see fit.

That is why BSD can't die. It will always be with me and it is in some places that even geeks might not notice.

In my opinion it's the best kind of open source, but of course I see the need for the GPL as well. It's just too bad they can't work together more closely, and are instead moving apart gradually.

Recent changes to OpenBSD's malloc might spotlight some bugs in GPL applications which are likely to lead to fixes being sent from a BSD hacker/port maintainer to GPL projects. Already this malloc change has found a 10 year old bug in X which was apparently very difficult to find otherwise.

Re:Who cares?

[zulux]

Already this malloc change has found a 10 year old bug in X which was apparently very difficult to find otherwise.

Always do this! Compile your app on the weirdest platform you can find - it's amazing the amount of bugs you can find!

I use to compile the core of our flagship Windows app on an old Sparc OpenBSD box now and then. The bug-catching was tremendous.

Now that our flagship software runs on *NIX, Windows now the orphan test bed ;)