Re: RHEL vs. Fedora for Red Hat Certification Prep

Subject: Re: RHEL vs. Fedora for Red Hat Certification Prep

From: Nathan Nutter <iam@nnutter.com>

Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 01:46:54 -0500

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On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage <dsavage@peaknet.net> wrote:

The market for Red Hat Linux support is far smaller than that for
Windows. You can make a very good living supporting Microsoft, while
still using Linux as your personal OS. Personally, I live in a
Microsoft-free environment.

I already list Microsoft-free but only because I've been using Mac OS X for the past few years. I still aim to use Linux someday, unfortunately my experience so far (as a desktop OS) is it's always, "gonna work next release". It feels like for a given machine a year or two ago 10 (arbitrary) things didn't work and each release they fix 2 but break 1. Someday... (If you care you can read about my most recent experience with Jaunty on my website, http://nnutter.com/.)

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Roger Hill <unixman@charter.net> wrote:

If you are just "beginning a career" (per your previous post) in this field, and have chosen Linux Systems as your area of expertise, I would NOT even attempt to take the RHCE, until you have about 2-3 years of hardcore experience admin'ing Linux systems, you will be wasting your money (the exam itself costs around $ 800.00) you will NOT pass without hardcore experience . This exam is NOT beginners, not something you can cram for the night before, and not for the faint of heart. It is all 100% hands on, and not a 'download the brain-dump-multiple-choice-cheat-click-and-pass', like 99% of the Microsoft Exams are.

Like the A+ test ;-)

I just got that; I studied for a week but otherwise hadn't done anything since I worked as a tech 5+ years ago. I definitely understand that the RHCE is a real certification.

Instead Nathan, try starting out with something like CompTIA's Linux+ or the LPIC Level 1, and work your way up with experience like that.

So this is definitely more or less where I planned to start out. What I was more referring to with my Red Hat comments was to starting with the RHCT (but I never said that). I suspect that it shares some of the difficulty of it's big brother I figured I'd have to start by using RHEL ;-)

So in that manner do you know how the RHCT compares to Linux+ or LPIC-1?

...Windows...Linux...

As far as Windows, etc. I certainly intend to learn as much as possible I'm just trying to decide where to start. For me learning Linux would have a bit more "passion" but Windows would probably be more immediately beneficial. It's kind of a tough choice I guess. Then of course there's the whole philosophy of open source...

Thanks again to all three of you. I very much appreciate the advice/comments/information.