[Gllug] Red Hat versus other qualifications

[Joel Bernstein]

On 1 Jul 2009, at 10:10, Matthew Smith wrote:

> 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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