>On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Andrew Hodgson wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Sorry for the question out of the blue, but I'm curious to know why >> DragonFly is required knowledge for the BSDA. I've got a good few >> years under my belt with Free and OpenBSD, and wouldn't object to >> perusing NetBSD for the exam, but isn't DragonFly still a >long way away from production? >> And, isn't it sufficiently different from other, more established >> flavours to significantly affect the result of an exam if a >candidate >> *doesn't* know about it? >> >> I'm not imagining I can change anything at this late stage, >I'm just >> curious to know! > > >If you carefully review the exam objectives for the BSDA, >you'll find very little DragonflyBSD differences--in fact, >you'll see a lot of its FreeBSD heritage as well as the >upcoming pkgsrc inherited from NetBSD. IIRC, there was only >one entry in the Appendix A chart that applied uniquely to >DragonflyBSD.
That settles it then! Thanks, I'm looking forward to taking the exam. Andrew _______________________________________________ BSDCert mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert
