Slackware certs.?
 

Hi all,

Is there a slackware cert.? If so could you plz give me a link to info about it. Thank You

-Joey

If your referring to Certifications like in taking a test, AFAIK there are none.

Yes I am and thank you. What Certifications are there for linux?

-Joey

CompTIA's Linux+ (easiest; entry level)
LPI (Linux Professional Institute) certification
RHCE (RedHat centric)

and how do I go about geting them?

-Joey

http://www.comptia.org/certification/linux/default.asp
http://www.lpi.org/en/home.html
http://www.redhat.com/training/rhce/courses/

Thank You so much.

-Joey

I write up Slackware certs if you paypal me $100.00

I wish I would have seen this post earlier! Is the Slackare certification offer still open?

(maybe this post will drum you up some business, wink, wink):D

No, there are no Slackware certifications...

Ironically, the question came from someone whom I can probably relate -- but alas, there are no Linux-based jobs in Hillsbrough county, at least for a high-school student. Therefore, getting certified wouldn't help much.

now to go fix portage...

Don't forget Novell's contribution.

Sadly, Slackware is pretty much ignored in the corporate world (though not by the people that really know what they are doing).

Which is fairly logical. There is no certification for Slackware Linux (although LPIC applies to Slack pretty well). Slack Inc. does not provide paid-for support on their website, and the Slack site only has a very small list of consultants.

Besides that most other major distributions include full support for PAM, LDAP, SELinux/AppArmor, etc.

Yeah. Slack can be used in companies that have an experienced Linux administrator with enough time. Though, there are still some steps to take. E.g. suppose that a company wants to deploy 100 Linux desktops, it is hard to expect that they are going to build dbus and HAL and rebuild KDE on every occassion just to get good support for automatic mounting. The sysadmin wiz can build it for them, but it gives many more continuity problems than installing, say CentOS, Red Hat or SUSE.

Not to burn off Slackware, it is a good distribution that is primarily useful for people who speak UNIX fluently. But it is just not ready for most corporate use, especially when there are many good alternatives available.

If I were rolling out 100 slackware boxes, I would only configure one, and then clone from there with a custom dvd that is set up with custom scripts to do the other 99 for me with a disk insertion and a boot.

This is when you port JumpStart to Slackware. :)