Re: Request for advice

2012-06-14 Thread Super Bisquit
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Dru Lavigne wrote: > >> I'm curious. When will the >> examination cover other architectures such >> as POWER/PowerPC, SPARC, and ARM? >> Having an exam for such architectures would get the BSDs >> recognition >> as a reliable system with the Power group. Support fo

Re: Request for advice

2012-06-12 Thread Eitan Adler
On 12 June 2012 14:15, Jared Barneck wrote: >> I'm curious. When will the >>> examination cover other architectures such >>> as POWER/PowerPC, SPARC, and ARM? >>> Having an exam for such architectures would get the BSDs >>> recognition >>> as a reliable system with the Power group. Support for ARM

Re: Request for advice

2012-06-12 Thread David Chisnall
On 12 Jun 2012, at 22:15, Jared Barneck wrote: > Or you could start a company that uses FreeBSD on such systems and see if you > can make it... Someone did: http://semihalf.com/ David___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: Request for advice

2012-06-12 Thread Jared Barneck
> I'm curious. When will the >> examination cover other architectures such >> as POWER/PowerPC, SPARC, and ARM? >> Having an exam for such architectures would get the BSDs >> recognition >> as a reliable system with the Power group. Support for ARM >> in the exam >> could increase the use of the BS

Re: Request for advice

2012-06-12 Thread Dru Lavigne
>>The BSDA exam is for system administration, not development. >Out of curiosity, is there a market for a FreeBSD Developer cert?  We have not done an analysis to see if there is a market. There has been interest since we started the program, which came as a surprise to us seeing that an open

Re: Request for advice

2012-06-12 Thread Dru Lavigne
> I'm curious. When will the > examination cover other architectures such > as POWER/PowerPC, SPARC, and ARM? > Having an exam for such architectures would get the BSDs > recognition > as a reliable system with the Power group. Support for ARM > in the exam > could increase the use of the BSDs in

Re: Request for advice

2012-06-12 Thread Jakub Lach
1. I believe that exam is architecture-neutral. 2. I fail to see specific administrative skills needed for ARM (especially*), PowerPC and SPARC. * BSDCG is not "how to build embedded system" exam, the more- course. -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Request-fo

Re: Request for advice

2012-06-12 Thread David Chisnall
Hi Dru, On 11 Jun 2012, at 20:33, Dru Lavigne wrote: > The BSDCG gets requests quite often from employers who are looking for admins > with BSD skills. We refer them to our BSDA certified linked in group as its > members are all BSDA certified. There is also a linkedin group for those > intere

Re: Request for advice

2012-06-11 Thread Super Bisquit
I'm curious. When will the examination cover other architectures such as POWER/PowerPC, SPARC, and ARM? Having an exam for such architectures would get the BSDs recognition as a reliable system with the Power group. Support for ARM in the exam could increase the use of the BSDs in embedded devices;

Re: Request for advice

2012-06-11 Thread Dru Lavigne
> Hello, > I'm currently planning on taking the BSD Association > certification, as described here.  (http://www.bsdcertification.org/) > > Although I am primarily doing so for personal, rather than > economic reasons, I did want to ask whether or not it > possibly *would* add to a resume, in the

Re: Request for advice

2012-06-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Petrus writes: > Although I am primarily doing so for personal, rather than economic > reasons, I did want to ask whether or not it possibly *would* add to a > resume, in the opinions of people here. What you should ask yourself instead is "can it possibly hurt?" > So I wanted to ask; how possib