Re: Request for advice

2012-06-12 Thread David Chisnall
Hi Dru, On 11 Jun 2012, at 20:33, Dru Lavigne wrote: The BSDCG gets requests quite often from employers who are looking for admins with BSD skills. We refer them to our BSDA certified linked in group as its members are all BSDA certified. There is also a linkedin group for those

Re: Request for advice

2012-06-12 Thread Jakub Lach
1. I believe that exam is architecture-neutral. 2. I fail to see specific administrative skills needed for ARM (especially*), PowerPC and SPARC. * BSDCG is not how to build embedded system exam, the more- course. -- View this message in context:

Re: Request for advice

2012-06-12 Thread Dru Lavigne
I'm curious. When will the examination cover other architectures such as POWER/PowerPC, SPARC, and ARM? Having an exam for such architectures would get the BSDs recognition as a reliable system with the Power group. Support for ARM in the exam could increase the use of the BSDs in

Re: Request for advice

2012-06-12 Thread Dru Lavigne
The BSDA exam is for system administration, not development. Out of curiosity, is there a market for a FreeBSD Developer cert?  We have not done an analysis to see if there is a market. There has been interest since we started the program, which came as a surprise to us seeing that an open

Re: Request for advice

2012-06-12 Thread Jared Barneck
I'm curious. When will the examination cover other architectures such as POWER/PowerPC, SPARC, and ARM? Having an exam for such architectures would get the BSDs recognition as a reliable system with the Power group. Support for ARM in the exam could increase the use of the BSDs in embedded

Re: Request for advice

2012-06-12 Thread David Chisnall
On 12 Jun 2012, at 22:15, Jared Barneck wrote: Or you could start a company that uses FreeBSD on such systems and see if you can make it... Someone did: http://semihalf.com/ David___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Request for advice

2012-06-12 Thread Eitan Adler
On 12 June 2012 14:15, Jared Barneck rhy...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm curious. When will the examination cover other architectures such as POWER/PowerPC, SPARC, and ARM? Having an exam for such architectures would get the BSDs recognition as a reliable system with the Power group. Support for ARM