[RHCE] Red Hat 9.0

[Mike Broome]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:16:50PM -0500, 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?

I think we should switch over to RHL 9.0 once it comes out.  I suspect
much of the Red Hat Way(tm) of doing things will be the same between the
two.  As Jeremy mentioned in another e-mail, we should look at the RHL
9.0 release notes very carefully when they come out.  If there are
changes in topics that we've already covered, those should be pointed
out to the group.  We can do that on this list, on IRC, or maybe even
add in a class about what's new and different in RHL 9.0.

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

Not I.

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

I vote for sticking with the current curriculum.  See my comments above.

> 
> - 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, I say we push on and fold in RHL 9.0 and convert over to it once
it's out.  If we find that it's dramatically different (which I doubt
will be the case), at that point we can decide whether to continue or
reset the study group.

> 
> - 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?

No, I think our charter is still the same.  I think changing to a
"general Linux Certification training" study group would dillute the
focus too much.  I'm sure we'd have a lot of fun and learn a lot about
Linux, but for those in the group that actually want to get the RHCE, I
think we need to remain focused on that.  As we've seen in the meetings,
there are differences between general Linux and the Ret Hat Way(tm).

> 
> - Is anyone else getting frustrated with trying to hit
>    the moving RHCE target?

Yeah, a little bit.  Not enough to panic over since I suspect the
differences between RHL 8.0 and RHL 9.0 won't be huge, even though it's
a bump of the major release number.  From what I read on the mailing
lists, the big motivator in the version number bump is the binary
incompatibility between the two.  (But it might also end up that I don't
know what I'm talking about.)

> 
> 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.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure this will be one of the topics dicussed on IRC on
Wednesday. :)

Mike

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Mike Broome
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