[RHCE] Red Hat 9.0

[Jeremy Portzer]

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On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 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.
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> 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

Correct.  I had sort of always assumed most of us would be taking the
RHCE after April, and hence the Red Hat Linux 9.0 version anyway.  If
you notice I've mentioned features of the Phoebe beta several times for
this reason.

> Which raises a few questions for the RHCE study group:
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> - How many people are interested in studying Red Hat 8.0
>    versus Red Hat 9.0?

I'm actually interested in studying Red Hat *Linux* 9.  Sorry for making
a deal of this, but it's a peeve of mine.  Red Hat is the company, Red
Hat Linux is the product.

> - Does anyone have any inside information about how this will
>    affect the content of the RHCE exam?

Within 3 to 4 weeks of the release, the exam will be updated for the new
version.

> - Should we plan to continue with our current cirriculum
>    and schedule, or re-work the schedule?

Sure, the basic points should be the same.

> - 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?

No, IMO we don't need to change anything.  I really don't think enough
things will be different. Sure there will be minor changes (like
rehdat-config-printer works for both CUPS and LPRng instead of only
LPRng), but nothing show-stopping.  The release notes for RHL 9, when it
comes out, will be invaluable here.

> - 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?
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> - Is anyone else getting frustrated with trying to hit
>    the moving RHCE target?
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I agree that is a bit frustrating, but I also have no interest in being
certified on yesterday's technology, so I like the RHCE policy.  It was
no big secret that Red Hat's release cycle is about 6 months, so I was
definitely expecting a release sometime in April.

What is interesting is that the current RHCE policy says that your
certification becomes expired when it's two major versions old.  So
anyone who currently has a certification on 7.x will have to re-certify
on 9 to stay current, unless they plan to revise the policy.  I suspect
when that policy was drafted they didn't expect that binary
compatibility would be changing quite as much, thus requiring the 9.0
release.


--Jeremy

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