[wplug] Linux certification - more questions

Yaakov Nemoy loupgaroublond at gmail.com
Thu Feb 18 17:30:59 EST 2010


2010/2/17 Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com>:
> On Tuesday 16 February 2010 11:12:56 pm Zachary Uram wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I mentioned LPIC, which I kind of favour for being cross-platform, but
>> > really, just about everyone uses Red Hat (or CentOS if they're cheap) on
>> > their servers, not Debian or Gentoo or Ubuntu, so the Red Hat ones are
>> > the ones people tend to care about.
>>
>> Maybe on corporate servers, but most Linux admins I've come across who
>> impressed me with their knowledge and skill ran Debian or derived
>> distros 90% at home. I also run Debian at home and on my VPS.
>
> Oh yes, sorry, I did mean that in a corporate context.  I was thinking in
> terms of how useful certain certs are on a resume when job-hunting.
>
> Dunno why anyone would choose a rpm-based distro at home.  I definitely get
> annoyed with the sysadmins at work when I request a VM for some purpose and
> they give me CentOS instead of Debian.  Then I have to figure out how to port
> rpm's from Fedora to CentOS and blah blah...when Debian's already got nice big
> repositories.

Have you tried EPEL? It's got alot of packages for RHEL and CentOS out
of the Fedora repo.

I can tell you why you want to run an rpm based distro at home. It's
the best way to know what you're doing with Red Hat based software.

-Yaakov


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