[OT] BSD Certification Group Formed

[Jon Drews <jon.drews@gmail.com>]

March 15, 2005

BSD Certification Group Takes Initiative

Today, the BSD Certification Group officially announces their website and
group focused in the creation of BSD certification. The public website is
at http://www.bsdcertification.org/.

A number of BSD developers, systems administrators and advocates have
come together to begin the first steps in the creation of a standard
BSD certification. Today marks the official launch of their public
website at http://www.bsdcertification.org/.

The BSDs, including FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonflyBSD, are
mature operating systems based on the original Unix developed at
University of Berkeley, California.  BSD powers global Internet service
provider infrastructures, and BSD userland applications are familiar to
those running Apple's OS X operating system.  BSD tools like OpenSSH are
used to securely access remote systems, and many TCP/IP stacks are derived
from BSD.

"While some may feel that a BSD certification would just replicate the
problems that other certifications have created, namely lack of experience
masked by a piece of paper, the committee is convinced that with the
proper preparation and testing criteria, a tiered BSD certification process
can demonstrate real-world proficiency as well as provide a goal for those
just beginning their systems and network administration career," said
Dru Lavigne, networking and Unix instructor and the chair for the group.

The BSD Certification Group looks to bring together the BSD projects,
important vendors, educational institutions and beyond to work to make
this project a success.

The group invites all who are interested to subscribe to the public BSD
certification mailing list at http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert.

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