On Mar 16, 2005, at 10:09 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
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So far, we've been concentrating on getting a sysadmin certification defined. And it's proven to be a challenging task.
A developer certification would be nice, but I think it's a bit further off. And of course- that will be just as challenging, if not more so, since multiple languages are involved as well.
I agree strongly with Jim here. . .
It's overwhelming enough to attempt a sysadmin type cert. . . to add app development would be too much. Although at a later stage I would be interested in reapproaching the question.
The bigger challenge, IMO, is to create a single sysadmin cert for all the BSDs, something I know many people do not thing is possible.
Of course there are massive differences in the way things are done, but there's also a philosophy, a history, and application overlap, not to mention the commonality of the Unix thang, that would make this possible.
So you could have an early section on installing applications, covering the ports system (similar for all), pkg_add, pkgsrc (NetBSD but goes way way beyond) and maybe FBSDs sysinstall.
Firewalling could look focus on IPF and PF, since those seem to be the dominant players at this point, and while their implementation may very, their rule construction and architecture doesn't change between the BSDs, except PF on OBSD since it's more native.
George
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