From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 21 00:02:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2E1F16A405 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:02:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5166C43D48 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:02:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k3L00tOg093862; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:01:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <444820AD.8040907@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:00:45 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Seaman References: <20060420060136.22722.qmail@web51610.mail.yahoo.com> <44474B50.3090004@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <44474B50.3090004@infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Mark Jayson Alvarez Subject: Re: bsdcertification.org vs bsdcertification.com (which is which??) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:02:34 -0000 Matthew Seaman wrote: >Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > > >>Anyone here who are interested in taking up bsd certifications?? the >>bsdcertification.org says they are not affiliated with >>bsdcertication.com. I'm confused which one should I pick?? Any idea? >>I am particularly interested in having a FreeBSD certification.. >> >> > >Well, let me put it this way: bsdcertification.org is run by a number of >people well known in the *BSD world as making a valuable contribution to >{Free,Open,Net,Dragonfly}BSD and others. > >If you look at the list of names in the left hand column on this page: > > http://www.bsdcertification.org/index.php?NAV=Meet%20Us > >then with particular reference to FreeBSD you may well recognise: > > Dan Lagille (Freshports, BSD Diary) > > "Langille", actually --- and you forgot "BSDCan". http://www.langille.org/ > Scott Long (leading FreeBSD committer: wrote large chunks of SCSI > system I believe) > > http://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/ > Dru Lavigne (Wrote 'BSD Hacks' and 'Big Scarey Daemons' OnLamp column) > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dru_Lavigne > Wes Peters (Another leading FreeBSD committer) > > I couldn't find a good home page for Wes, but agree with Matt's evaluation. Wes is a member of FreeBSD core team, last I recall, as well. Perhaps someone knows his URI. > Jeremy C Reed (Leading FreeBSD Advocacy person) > > http://pilchuck.reedmedia.net/jeremy/ > Greg Lehey (Author of 'The Complete BSD'. Former member of core@, > well known on this list) > > http://www.lemis.com/~grog/ (from memory, heh. Seriously, fascinating collection of material --- the web would be a much worse place if disaster struck and Greg had no backups). > Marshall Kirk McKusick (co-author of 'The Design and Implementation > of the FreeBSD Operating System') > > http://www.mckusick.com/ The other site you mention, "bsdcertification.com" is run by Jared Barneck, according to whois. His home page is at http://www.rhyous.com/. In 4+ years in FreeBSD, I've not heard of Jared; that is not to say he should be disqualified from consideration---it's possible that he runs a fine program. However, I *have* had dealings with all of the others above except Mr. Peters, and have found them knowledgeable, friendly, and deeply concerned about the quality and growth of FreeBSD. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage.