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.

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 ;)