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BSDA cert exam now available at IQT testing centers
Dear forum,
As someone who recently took the BSD Associate (BSDA) Exam at a conference here in Chicago and who is also on the BSDCG mailing list, I've been asked to post the announcement about the new computer-based testing option for the BSD Certifications in relevant forums etc. http://www.bsdcertification.org/news/pr061.html Basically, since 2008 when the BSDA exam first appeared, it's been a paper-based exam and while this is still an option--and very affordable at a cost of $75 USD--there is now an option to take the exam at IQT testing centers located throughout the world. Because of the new delivery method, if you opt to take the test in computer-based form, the cost becomes $150 USD. As I understand it, the BSD Professional (BSDP) exam also seems to be available and there is no requirement for a person to take the BSDA first as is the case with other certification programs (e.g. RHCSA to RHCE etc). Basically, if you feel you have the skills, you can take the BSDP. I'm not sure at this point as to the pricing of the BSDP, as it is a two-part test: written and a live lab-oriented part. Finally I'd like to say it's important to realize that taking the BSDA or BSDP directly supports BSD and spreads awareness about the systems. Case in point, I was the only person who took the BSDA exam at the aforementioned conference a few weeks ago here in Chicago. All the rest of the examinees were taking the Linux Professional Institute exams 1 & II. Even if you are, say originally a Music student like myself and a computer hobbyist and don't envision yourself becoming a master systems admin, it can be a very good experience to find areas you need improvement in. Even if you are an expert, there is likely a chance you will learn a new way of doing something. If you do work in IT, well all the more reason to make yourself marketable in this competitive economy. http://www.bsdcertification.org/news/pr061.html Regards |
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Quite honestly, I believe the certification is a sham.. I would not pay a dime.
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If you are looking to expand on this idea of community and still need a specific example of financial sponsorship, you have only to look at what the BSD Fund recently did with the proceeds from NYBSDCON 2010. Quote:
http://bsdfund.org/press/ Many of the board members on the BSDGG are heavily involved in these events and like myself, seem to agree that the BSD systems as a whole need more adoption/exposure. The BSD Certification is simply another angle in the larger scheme of pushing these systems in industry. Regards |
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The concept of a single certification for multiple distinct projects is flawed, I know and use OpenBSD.. while I'm not ignorant of the other projects, I don't actively following their development nor maintain any such systems at home.
Not interesting in the least, it should not weigh in on an employers decision to hire someone.. it's their job to thoroughly interview potential employees. |
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Well, like it or not, and regardless of FreeBSD being your preferred system, the fact is that FreeBSD is the least interesting of four BSDs projects. FreeBSD actually have not contributed anything to BSDs ecosystem probably since the times of 4.xxx when Matt Dillon forked DragonFly unless you count things like scrypt . And please, please stop bragging about ZFS and DTrace since if I need Solaris stuff I will use Solaris. Also when I need Linux I will use Linux and I do not need FreeBSD linux emulation layer nor GNU tools which dominate FreeBSD userland (you do not even have tar ). Cheers, Oko P.S. By most support you must be thinking of Opera web-browser since I can not thing of anything relevant supported by commercial vendors on FreeBSD. No serious compiler to speak of (PortlandCC, Open64), no GPU/CUDA drivers, no Oracle, no Maple, no Mathematica, no MATLAB, no scanner drivers (epkowa), no drivers for all in one (Brother), no Adobe Flash, no Acrobat Reader, no Java, no Skype ... Oh... I forgot, you do not even have major open source support like the one for TeX (no TeXLive on FreeBSD via official ports) Last edited by Oko; 1st May 2011 at 10:06 PM. |
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Well ... at least we have tar
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% which tar /usr/bin/tar (in base system) % tar --version bsdtar 2.7.0 - libarchive 2.7.0 % which gtar /usr/local/bin/gtar (added by coreutils package) % gtar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.26 Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
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As the Chinese say the thousand kilometer journey starts with one step... |
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I have heard all that 'Sato TeX bullsh!t' many times, I just wonder why we still do not have that up to date TeX in the ports?
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Sorry for being ignorent but who is Hiroki Sato? I could find he is in the board of directors of the FreeBSD Foundation. Also a member of the core FreeBSD team and he maily focuses on documentaion of FreeBSD.
Why would getting rid of him get FreeBSD closer to TeXLive? (P.S. Hiroki Sato according to google is also part of MMA (different man i guess?) or is he just that awesome?) |
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Last edited by Oko; 2nd May 2011 at 08:03 PM. |
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As for tar, libarchive(3) tells me: Code:
HISTORY The libarchive library first appeared in FreeBSD 5.3. |
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http://ivoras.net/freebsd/freebsd7.html http://ivoras.net/freebsd/freebsd8.html http://ivoras.net/freebsd/freebsd9.html So porting LVM from Linux to DragonflyBSD/NetBSD is 'better' then porting ZFS to FreeBSD?
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religions, worst damnation of mankind "If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened." Linus Torvalds Linux is not UNIX! Face it! It is not an insult. It is fact: GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not UNIX”. vermaden's: links resources deviantart spreadbsd Last edited by vermaden; 3rd May 2011 at 01:16 PM. |
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I don't agree but I don't hate you or anything. I think the base BSD Way of doing things is similar enough but that's just my opinion. After all, it's only a matter of reading through man pages or documentation to figure the way this BSD does things compared to that BSD. The changes aren't as drastic as they can be going from between two disparate Linux distributions for example. I also think a variety of factors should go into the decision to hire someone not just a certification. This includes whether the hiring manager feels the candidate will work well with others for example. Also, while you've already expressed your disinterest, I just thought others might like to know, that for the BSDP, I believe you can use whatever preferred BSD distribution you want to complete the live-lab objectives. I think that's fair enough for people who primarily use this-or-that system. Also, FreeBSD is not my preferred distribution. I think NetBSD is my preferred distribution. I also LOVE OpenBSD though and run a couple of machines on it. Depends on the task for me. |
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nilsgeko: I think that saying "the base way of doing things" is closer in BSD's than in Linux is wrong. Your right that a quick look at man pages will tell you what you need, but how does that change it from Linux?
I'm not against broad Linux or BSD qualifications, they can give people good base knowledge. I just think saying to people when you know one you know them all is wrong. |
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Speaking of porting ZFS, it is already ported to NetBSD 5.99 the same as Hammer. If you are really after some very specific file systems requirements NetBSD is just the way to go... (from the mouth of OpenBSD user ) Last edited by Oko; 3rd May 2011 at 09:13 PM. |
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He was bragging about support for FreeBSD so I felt the need to respond. The only probably correct statement he made was that FreeBSD has the largest user base among BSDs. BSDs have such a miniscule user base that even such claim should be taken with a reserve as there is no even semi accurate account of the BSDs installations. For instance right now the system admin of this forum probably see my system as Linux as I use Opera via Linux emulator layer on OpenBSD. Even on this forum I bet half of all members never or only seldom use BSDs which Carpetsmoker once in the past confirmed by posting the user statistic for this forum. Cheers, Oko |
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I like NetBSD because of having Xen dom0 support and iSCSI target in the base, but thats it, I have tried it about 5.0 times and it was PITA to use it (packages/configuration/sound), I hope most of these things will be resolved at 6.0 (pkgin is very nice).
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