I never felt MCSE/MCP/* were better or smarter than other windows admin/programmers. In fact, I always felt that someone who had "and by the way, I'm a MSPECSDE!" in the sig, would be seem a little less serious and knowledable in most cases.
So, how can we ensure that the same thing doesn't happen to the penguin community? Simple - we make the tests friggin' HARD! They are supposed to be hard, and not something your grandmother can pass given enough time and money. (no offense to grandmothers. object may appear closer than they really are. )
A linux certification should demonstrate a grasp of all basic concepts, and the most important "advanced" ones.
Maybe a free linux certification could be developed. Or maybe it couldn't, but IMHO, that an interesting thought.
This would be quite interesting for winmodems (and other hardware with seriously broken design and/or drivers). "But", you might ask, "why would anybody want a winmodem?".
The answer is simple: notebooks. In (too) many notebooks, linux-challenged hardware exists, which simply cannot be removed or upgraded. An emulation layer could provide a sufficiently good solution, for situtions where a piece of hardware/a notebook is quite attractive, except for a few driver related issues.
And please don't come with the "it will hurt driver development" - did wine ever hurt linux application development?
Actually, the new {Star|Open}Office 1.1 is pretty good! I had to handle/convert/manage a number of powerpoint presentations and word documents on my linux box, and *Office 1.1 opened every single one without _any_ errors or visual artifact.
Pretty impressive stuff, considering just HOW closed and obfuscated word documents et. al are.
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I never felt MCSE/MCP/* were better or smarter than other windows admin/programmers. In fact, I always felt that someone who had "and by the way, I'm a MSPECSDE!" in the sig, would be seem a little less serious and knowledable in most cases.
So, how can we ensure that the same thing doesn't happen to the penguin community? Simple - we make the tests friggin' HARD! They are supposed to be hard, and not something your grandmother can pass given enough time and money. (no offense to grandmothers. object may appear closer than they really are. )
A linux certification should demonstrate a grasp of all basic concepts, and the most important "advanced" ones.
Maybe a free linux certification could be developed. Or maybe it couldn't, but IMHO, that an interesting thought.
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This would be quite interesting for winmodems (and other hardware with seriously broken design and/or drivers). "But", you might ask, "why would anybody want a winmodem?".
The answer is simple: notebooks. In (too) many notebooks, linux-challenged hardware exists, which simply cannot be removed or upgraded. An emulation layer could provide a sufficiently good solution, for situtions where a piece of hardware/a notebook is quite attractive, except for a few driver related issues.
And please don't come with the "it will hurt driver development" - did wine ever hurt linux application development?
Actually, the new {Star|Open}Office 1.1 is pretty good! I had to handle/convert/manage a number of powerpoint presentations and word documents on my linux box, and *Office 1.1 opened every single one without _any_ errors or visual artifact.
Pretty impressive stuff, considering just HOW closed and obfuscated word documents et. al are.
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