https://www.lpi.org/articles/linux-professional-institute-releases-bsd-specialist-certification
Linux Professional Institute extends its Open Technology certification track with the BSD Specialist Certification. Starting October 30, 2019, BSD Specialist exams will be globally available. The certification was developed in collaboration with the BSD Certification Group which merged with Linux Professional Institute in 2018.
[...] "The BSD Specialist certificate requires passing a single exam. This exam tests skills in administering FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD systems. Covering the three major BSD systems ensures that the certification holder is comfortable working in BSD-based environments of any kind" says Fabian Thorns, Director of Product Development.
Dru Lavigne, Chair of the BSD Certification Group adds, "We are excited that the partnership with the Linux Professional Institute highlights the demand for BSD administration skills to a larger audience. The BSD Specialist exam follows the same rigorous standards as the former BSD Associate exam, ensuring that the certification demonstrates competency in the core skills employers demand in a BSD environment."
[...] LPI is the global organization for certification standards and career support for open source professionals. With more than 175,000 certification holders, it is the world's first and largest Linux and open source certification authority. LPI has certified professionals in more than 180 countries, delivering exams in multiple languages, and has hundreds of training partners.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 30 2019, @03:16PM (13 children)
Will this cert teach me how to replace the 60's era rc with a truly modern pid1, SystemD, for ultra-hot boot times and databased logs?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 30 2019, @03:40PM
No, for that you need to use systemd's certification-training module which will be ready as soon as Poettering finishes designing a new log format for it.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday November 30 2019, @04:00PM (9 children)
No, for that you just need to have your brain removed. I am told large doses of money make the process more amenable.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by NickM on Saturday November 30 2019, @05:02PM (4 children)
But no need to remove your brain to hold the cash, bank exist essentially for that purpose!!,
I a master of typographic, grammatical and miscellaneous errors !
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday December 01 2019, @09:22PM (3 children)
>I have a knack for reading 1000's page of dry administration manuals
are you sure you are in the pro-systemd camp?
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(Score: 2) by NickM on Monday December 02 2019, @10:00PM (2 children)
I a master of typographic, grammatical and miscellaneous errors !
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday December 02 2019, @11:12PM (1 child)
The point being that man bash is all you need to make sense of sysvinit, and runit is even simpler.
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(Score: 2) by NickM on Tuesday December 03 2019, @12:02AM
I a master of typographic, grammatical and miscellaneous errors !
(Score: 4, Interesting) by barbara hudson on Saturday November 30 2019, @06:06PM (3 children)
And that's what this certification program is designed to do - make money for the people running the certification process. Considering how they've managed to totally fuck up linux so that we will never see "the year of linux on the desktop" as we understood it, screw that.
These certifications are as useless as the Microsoft Certified Software Engineer certs of days gone by.
People without the necessary skills still insist on intermediating themselves into others lives for profit.
Follow the money. After all, that's what they're doing, and if it works for them ...
Has there ever been a certification in the last 30 years that hasn't been some combination of bullshit and hype?
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(Score: 1) by jasassin on Saturday November 30 2019, @09:20PM
That's the first thing that entered my mind. I had to find out the details. I'll share them with you so you don't have to waste your time.
For Linux:
(LPIC-1)
Exam 101 $200
Exam 102 $200
LPI DevOps Tools Engineer Exam Voucher $200
DevOps Tools Engineer/LPIC-1 Voucher Bundle $420
(LPIC-2)
Exam 201 $200
Exam 202 $200
(LPIC-3)
Exam 303 $200
Exam 304 $200
Exam 300 $200
For BSD:
BSD Specialist Exam Voucher $200
So if you went with the bundle for Cerfication Level 1: $420
Certification Level 2: $400
Cerfitication Level 3: $600
Total for all Linux certifications: $1,420
Total for BSD cerfitication: $200
Total for all certifications: $1,620
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday November 30 2019, @10:50PM (1 child)
Tell me about it...I've got the PTCE coming up within a few months with any luck, and while it's cheaper to certify and recertify *that* every few years than this slew of IT certs, it's still very clear this is a rent-seeking racket. Pervasive rent-seeking is a sign of degeneracy in a capitalist system, as well as a regressive tax on us all by means of inflation, since it demands money be moved for virtual and therefore nonexistent goods.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday November 30 2019, @11:18PM
I tried to do something about it in the previous century, when Microsoft was offering MCSE (Microsoft Certified Software Engineer) certs. I contacted our order of engineers and told them either to get Microsoft to stop offering fake engineer certs, or I would start selling engineer certs for $100 a pop, no test required.
They showed up at my door one morning, and I explained that I only wanted them to stop misusing the title "engineer" but if it didn't stop, I would go ahead and use their inaction as justification.
Someone in Texas had the same idea at the same time. In both places, Engineer is a professional title, and Microsoft was not entitled to use it in their programs.
It kind of worked - within 6 months they had "upgraded" their program to Microsoft Certified Software Associate or something. At least they weren't helping people pretend they were engineers, never mind software engineers.
If you've ever worked with real engineers, you DON'T want them writing software.
They asked a group of civil engineers to estimate when a pile of earth would collapse as it was being undercut. Nobody got within 50% of what really happened when the earth was being removed.
Good luck with the test.
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(Score: 2) by epitaxial on Saturday November 30 2019, @05:20PM (1 child)
The really funny part is systemd stole the binary logs idea from AIX.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 30 2019, @06:26PM
Not like aches is anything to hold in high esteem: they copied the windoze registry for their ODM.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Acabatag on Saturday November 30 2019, @04:37PM (8 children)
The BSD OSes follow the Unix standard well enough that you can admin them using the original BSD Manual Set, supplemented by 20 year old O'Reilly animal books.
I fail to see what being 'certified' by some Linux distro-jockeys brings.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by epitaxial on Saturday November 30 2019, @05:23PM
Agreed. Every so often Linux rewrites all of /etc for no good reason. Have a problem in Linux and you need to google something? Better set your results to only go back five years or so or your results will be worthless. I love the conservative nature of BSD. New ideas are thoroughly vetted before going into a release build. On Linux if it compiles it ships.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 30 2019, @05:41PM (1 child)
The Year of BSD Desktop?
(Score: 2) by RedGreen on Saturday November 30 2019, @08:44PM
"The Year of BSD Desktop?"
I see that Copyright the Regents of the University of California every time I boot my computer, I am so anal I need to see the boot messages. So it has been shipping for over a decade, they call it macOS these days.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Mojibake Tengu on Saturday November 30 2019, @06:04PM (4 children)
Linux is NOT Unix.
http://kernelbook.sourceforge.net/pdf/ch-intro.pdf [sourceforge.net]
Respect Authorities. Know your social status. Woke responsibly.
(Score: 5, Funny) by barbara hudson on Saturday November 30 2019, @06:12PM
We need to update that for the newer generation: Linux is SO not unix.
Linux isn't even linux any more.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday December 02 2019, @11:16PM (2 children)
>your sig
If we didn't delete Karthago you would have to write using a squiggly alphabet by now. Be thankful.
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(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Tuesday December 03 2019, @07:54AM (1 child)
It is not over yet. Never is. Writs come and go, but you missed the point of the invocation: what next?
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday December 03 2019, @08:40AM
Karthago again, just in case.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by SomeGuy on Saturday November 30 2019, @06:45PM
Obligatory Dilbert: Vast Power Of Certification
https://dilbert.com/strip/2000-08-31 [dilbert.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 01 2019, @02:20AM (1 child)
I hate everything about the IT certification cartel, but recently my employer decided that everyone needs to certified or fired. I was looking at the BSD cert just to be different, but their website redirected to a 404 "on the LPI site. Maybe I'll give it a look if they've got their shit together now. (I already went to the testing center at the local college and passed the A+ cold turkey which was enough to placate my boss.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 01 2019, @05:20AM
Does he have pointy hair?