As a person who just returned from RedHat, after completing the RHCE course, I think I have to put forth my opinion to those who are making theirs known here.
The RHCE training course is well-designed, well-rounded and complete with a mildly-difficult lab exam. The RedHat employees are friendly and helpful, the amenities are gracious and complete. Over all, the experience was great.
The concerns that I and others in my class had regarding course material (ambiguous questions and the occasional too easy lab) were listened to by the Training Coordinator (Peter Childers, a very intelligent and good person) personally, and all concerns were met with questions that showed intent to change the course material to the better. The course is in a state of continual improvement, and each class will be better than the last. Soon, there may be divergent levels of difficulty to accomodate the wide spectrum of Linux users. This is a good thing.
To those who believe that the RHCE is a bad thing, take the course and decide unbiasedly. You cannot shout from the rooftops to the Linux community (slashdot) about something that you have no credible knowledge of. Go visit RedHat and talk to the people there. It will surprise you to find how much work puts into the Linux community, that is outside the scope of RedHat. They evidently have their heads screwed on straight, they are out to make a profit (what company is not?) and are doing it the right way.
In conclusion, I recommend that people of all skill levels go and take the RHCE course. If you are a knowledgeable user, the class will teach you quite a bit. If you are a very well versed Linux developer, you might not learn quite as much, but it will be a good experience, and it will confirm your knowledge, not to mention give you "RHCE" after your name.
Oddly enough, I use fdisk to partition all of my new installs under RedHat, and immediately compile my own kernel... It appears that you are not doing something right, or you have not read the manual. ---------------- version conflict X X @
Rob. I love slashdot, I read it everyday. But, I am getting more and more embarrassed by your poor spelling and grammar. Here is a few examples:
cesspool, not "cespool" feels, not "feals" "You'll him with a passion."...what is this supposed to mean? characters, not "charachters"
I am not trying to say that you suck or that slashdot sucks, just that when you are being read by thousands of people, you need to make sure that your writing doesn't look like you are in 6th grade, with a D in English. ---------------- version conflict X X @
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As a person who just returned from RedHat, after completing the RHCE course, I think I have to put forth my opinion to those who are making theirs known here.
The RHCE training course is well-designed, well-rounded and complete with a mildly-difficult lab exam. The RedHat employees are friendly and helpful, the amenities are gracious and complete. Over all, the experience was great.
The concerns that I and others in my class had regarding course material (ambiguous questions and the occasional too easy lab) were listened to by the Training Coordinator (Peter Childers, a very intelligent and good person) personally, and all concerns were met with questions that showed intent to change the course material to the better. The course is in a state of continual improvement, and each class will be better than the last. Soon, there may be divergent levels of difficulty to accomodate the wide spectrum of Linux users. This is a good thing.
To those who believe that the RHCE is a bad thing, take the course and decide unbiasedly. You cannot shout from the rooftops to the Linux community (slashdot) about something that you have no credible knowledge of. Go visit RedHat and talk to the people there. It will surprise you to find how much work puts into the Linux community, that is outside the scope of RedHat. They evidently have their heads screwed on straight, they are out to make a profit (what company is not?) and are doing it the right way.
In conclusion, I recommend that people of all skill levels go and take the RHCE course. If you are a knowledgeable user, the class will teach you quite a bit. If you are a very well versed Linux developer, you might not learn quite as much, but it will be a good experience, and it will confirm your knowledge, not to mention give you "RHCE" after your name.
--anxiously awaiting my cert in the mail
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Oddly enough, I use fdisk to partition all of my new installs under RedHat, and immediately compile my own kernel... It appears that you are not doing something right, or you have not read the manual.
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Rob. I love slashdot, I read it everyday. But, I am getting more and more embarrassed by your poor spelling and grammar. Here is a few examples:
cesspool, not "cespool"
feels, not "feals"
"You'll him with a passion."...what is this supposed to mean?
characters, not "charachters"
I am not trying to say that you suck or that slashdot sucks, just that when you are being read by thousands of people, you need to make sure that your writing doesn't look like you are in 6th grade, with a D in English.
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