Re: Is the RHCE curriculum moving to RHEL 3?

[Ed Wilts <ewilts ewilts org>]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:08:34AM -0400, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 09:44, Ed Wilts wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 08:17:55AM -0400, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> > > I guess you're right, that a student could study for an RHEL 3-based
> > > exam using Red Hat Linux 9, or Fedora Core 1, and be pretty prepared. 
> > 
> > I would think that if you're buying software for yourself, Red Hat
> > Professional Workstation would be the right product.  It's based on Red
> > Hat Enterprise Linux WS, so you've got the same basic core
> > functionality.
> 
> WS does not include any of the server functionality.  RHCE covers quite
> a bit of server administration and configuration, not just client
> workstation functionality.  WS might be okay for preparing for the RHCT.

Samba, Apache, and sshd are all included in WS.  Missing are an ftp
server, and servers such as bind and ldap.  You could, however, add
those by building them from the source rpms from AS/ES.  If you can't
build them from the source rpms, you shouldn't be taking the RHCE anyway
:-).

> They're confused as to whether they should focus on
> technologies/versions of things included in RHL 9, Fedora Core, or RHEL
> 3.  In the near-term the test is still RHL 9, I understand that, but I'm
> trying to get an idea of what it will be in a month or two.  I guess it
> will just be "wait and see."

I thought the focus had already switched to RHEL and that the test had
switched.  It simply does not make sense for Red Hat to focus on RHL 9
or Fedora in the future.  RHL 9 is effectively obsolete by April 30
after which there will be no more errata and no RHL 10 to replace it.
Fedora is a project - not a product - and has no official support, so
training on it would not be in Red Hat's best interest.

Focus on RHEL - that's the obvious direction for Red Hat.

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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