[RHCE] Red Hat 9.0

[Jason Tower]

i don't think all that much has changed WRT the fundamentals.  i took the=
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rh253 course at redhat about two years ago when it was based on rh71, and=
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looking back at the course material very little of the basic stuff has=20
changed.  things like X, networking, service and process control, user=20
administration, file management, troubleshooting, and so on are almost or=
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exactly the same as they were two years ago, and will likely remain uncha=
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for the foreseeable future.  sure there are differences (grub/lilo, cups/=
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more gui tools) but 90-95% carries over version to version.  and not just=
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redhat, but other distros as well.  i may not be able to do everything, b=
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could probably sit down at a debian or slackware box and do 90% of what i=
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do on a redhat box with little or no extra effort.

just my $.02

jason

On Monday 24 March 2003 16:16, Steven Holton wrote:
> According to several sources, Red Hat will be shipping
> a 9.0 version, perhaps within the next week or two.
>
> I guess that means studying for the RHCE based on RH 8.0
> is pretty much out of the question. I'd suspect if you haven't
> already signed-up for an RHCE exam, you should probably be
> studying the (as yet unreleased) Red Hat 9.0
>
> Which raises a few questions for the RHCE study group:
>
> - How many people are interested in studying Red Hat 8.0
>    versus Red Hat 9.0?
>
> - Does anyone have any inside information about how this will
>    affect the content of the RHCE exam?
>
> - Should we plan to continue with our current cirriculum
>    and schedule, or re-work the schedule?
>
> - Do we need to suspend meetings until we see what 9.0
>    brings, or should we continue with the understanding
>    that anything we learn for 8.0 will likely be applicable
>    to 9.0 as well?
>
> - Have we lost our charter? In the past, our focus has been
>    to study for whatever RHCE exam we were likely to be taking.
>    Perhaps we need to re-think this into a "general Linux
>    Certification training" study group, in order to insulate
>    ourselves from the Red Hat whims?
>
> - Is anyone else getting frustrated with trying to hit
>    the moving RHCE target?
>
>
> I'm posing these as "food for thought" questions for the group.
> We probably need to make this a topic of discussion for Wednesday's
> IRC meeting.