[Gllug] Red Hat versus other qualifications

[william pink]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Joel Bernstein <joel at fysh.org> wrote:

> 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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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.

W
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