[Gllug] Red Hat versus other qualifications

[Jose Luis Martinez]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:04 AM, william pink<will.pink at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Joel Bernstein <joel at fysh.org> wrote:
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>> On 1 Jul 2009, at 10:10, Matthew Smith wrote:
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>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > I've been looking to get a Linux admin certificate, and was
>> > wondering if
>> > Red Hat was the gold standard in terms of making you more
>> > employable, or
>> > if the competition (Novell, CompTIA etc) were just as good.  Any
>> > ideas?
>>
>> IME Linux certification isn't worth the paper it's printed on. All the
>> RH-certified admins I worked with were morons who used GUIs to admin
>> servers, just like RH taught them (in 2002-2006, this may have changed
>> now). If you're hiring, I wonder whether certification is being used
>> to substitute for competent interviewing techniques? I would hesitate
>> to trust RH or LPI or whoever to do my interviews for me.
>>
>> Not sure what you're expecting to find in a Linux certification. Why
>> not just hire sysadmins with experience? Are you looking for this as
>> an engineer hoping to improve his job prospects or as a manager
>> looking to hire people?
>>
>> Don't get me wrong. Recent anecdotal on-list evidence suggests the RH
>> certification has improved to the extent that they don't ONLY teach
>> admin using their horrible GUI tools. But I'm not convinced at all by
>> the argument that you need to be "certified" to use their horrible mix
>> of broken backports and ancient userland. Maybe "certifiable" instead?
>>
>> /joel
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> I agree with you on most points but I can't honestly remember doing very
> much in the GUI nearly of all of it was command line when I was there around
> 2007. I also don't think RH certifications improve your chance's of being
> employed its just a nice to have.
>


Neither do I.

I remember in the insistence to use their own scripts, but it was
explained how to do things by hand and where all the information was
(networking was seen in more detail).
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