[BSDcert] Ideas on BSD Certifications

[G. Rosamond]

On Mar 16, 2005, at 10:09 AM, Jim Brown wrote:

> <snip>

>
> So far, we've been concentrating on getting a sysadmin certification
> defined.  And it's proven to be a challenging task.
>
> A developer certification would be nice, but I think it's a bit
> further off.  And of course- that will be just as challenging, if
> not more so, since multiple languages are involved as well.
>

I agree strongly with Jim here. . .

It's overwhelming enough to attempt a sysadmin type cert. . . to add 
app development would be too much.  Although at a later stage I would 
be interested in reapproaching the question.

The bigger challenge, IMO, is to create a single sysadmin cert for all 
the BSDs, something I know many people do not thing is possible.

Of course there are massive differences in the way things are done, but 
there's also a philosophy, a history, and application overlap, not to 
mention the commonality of the Unix thang, that would make this 
possible.

So you could have an early section on installing applications, covering 
the ports system (similar for all), pkg_add, pkgsrc (NetBSD but goes 
way way beyond) and maybe FBSDs sysinstall.

Firewalling could look focus on IPF and PF, since those seem to be the 
dominant players at this point, and while their implementation may 
very, their rule construction and architecture doesn't change between 
the BSDs, except PF on OBSD since it's more native.

George