From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jan 8 21:31:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (smtp10.atl.mindspring.net [207.69.200.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7A1014C2B for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 21:31:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (user-2ivea3s.dialup.mindspring.com [165.247.40.124]) by smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA00539; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 00:30:54 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38781CEE.6726EE0D@confusion.net> Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 00:30:22 -0500 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Heiko Recktenwald Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Certification - Sysadmin liability ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Since there is no FreeBSD certification AFAIK, what sort of certifications are good, if nothing else for a resume and such. For networking type stuff there's the Cisco certs (CCNA, CCIE, etc.), and Micro$oft has the MCSE and such. Is there something more generic that hiring types like to see? Heiko Recktenwald wrote: > > Hi, > > > Well, there's a professional group of systems administrators (SAGE;it's > > affiliated with USENIX, which is another organization that it's a good > > idea to know about). > > > > And the notion of "certification for systems administrators" tends to be > > one of the more contentious issues discussed, both in the sage-members > > mailing list and at face-to-face meetings. > > What should a certification be good for ? I dont think BSD needs > promotion, and else ? Sysadmin liability comes to mind. Well, as a law > student, not a professional admin, I think all cases are too different, to > be judged according to the fact if somebody had a general license to admin > or not. But I dont know any cases. Are there any ? > > Heiko > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 The above email Copyright (C) 1999 Laurence Berland All rights reserved To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message