Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > RH/Debian. Also assume LPI is truly distro-agnostic and this person has > earned an LPI cert. He's somewhat at sea with RH/Debian though (much like > LPI certified people find FreeBSD mostly familiar but also different enough > to be confusing). Now, can a hiring manager consider this person to be > truly certified in this thing called LINUX when you take the realities of > the real world into account?
Well, you can get certified and still blow the entire package management section. Remember, the certification isn't there to show that the person knows _everything_ Linux. It's there to show that they have a minimum capability and general knowledge (of the things that they didn't get right). It kid of reminds me of that age old question, "What do you call the student that finishes in last place at medical school?" [1] > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > >And that's a very excellent thing. There are many people and > > >institutions out there that would like to go with Red Hat but can't > > >right now - usually for license cost reasons. Centos gives them a > > >proving ground and an upgrade path to eventually get there. > > > > The most high-profile example I've heard of is the San Francisco > > Chronicle. Last year, they decided to upgrade from the Red Hat 6 that > > they were running, but couldn't afford the support contract for RHEL. > > So, they switched to CentOS, instead. > > The lead distributor for RH in this country quite freely recommends Centos > to any customer who balks at RH pricing and also doesn't have corporate > governance rules to comply with. He's crunched the numbers and can show > that this makes excellent business sense. It also increases sales, and > they've been in this game for 13 years and plan to stay the distance. I like that. I'm definitely an "all boats rise with the tide" kind of guy. [1]: Doctor :) Regards, -- g. matthew rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> starnix care, toronto, ontario, ca phone: 647.722.5301 x242 gpg id: EF9AAD20 http://www.starnix.com professional linux services & products _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
