RE: RHCE certifications and how current they are - answer below

2003-03-26 Thread Rigler, Steve
m, but as soon as I see a "RH 2003" which is upgraded by "RH XP" I'm jumping ship. -Steve -Original Message- From: Emmanuel Seyman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 5:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RHCE certifications and how current t

Re: RHCE certifications and how current they are - answer below

2003-03-25 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:52:39PM -0600, Rigler, Steve wrote: > > MS's version numbering system is so screwed it doesn't even deserve > mention (am I a version number, a year or a 2 letter buzz-phrase?). To their credit, I think Microsoft had a good idea when they started using the year instead o

RE: RHCE certifications and how current they are - answer below

2003-03-25 Thread Bill Anderson
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 13:52, Rigler, Steve wrote: > MS's version numbering system is so screwed it doesn't even deserve > mention (am I a version number, a year or a 2 letter buzz-phrase?). > > The US consumer market understands consistency. Just look at how > many sysadmins still say "Solaris 2.

Re: RHCE certifications and how current they are - answer below

2003-03-25 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:48:00PM -0500, Ezra Nugroho wrote: > I don't think that the integer only numbering is to confuse people. > It's to eliminate the .0 versions that people dislike so much. Yup - so, from now on, they'll *only* be releasing x.0 versions... >;-) Cheerio, Thomas -- ==> RH

Re: RHCE certifications and how current they are - answer below

2003-03-25 Thread John Nichel
Ed Wilts wrote: And I suppose the whole world is confused by Microsoft's integer numbering too? Almost the whole world are sheep for Microsoft, so that moot. The US consumer market currently understands integer numbering. After all, you grew up with integers long before you realized that there w

RE: RHCE certifications and how current they are - answer below

2003-03-25 Thread Rigler, Steve
- From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 1:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RHCE certifications and how current they are - answer below On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:25:49PM -0600, Rigler, Steve wrote: > "Starting with Red Hat Linux 9 the numbering

Re: RHCE certifications and how current they are - answer below

2003-03-25 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:25:49PM -0600, Rigler, Steve wrote: > "Starting with Red Hat Linux 9 the numbering system for > the consumer release will be stated only as an integer." > > So RH is trying to confuse everybody the same way Sun did with the Solaris > version numbers. And I suppose the

RE: RHCE certifications and how current they are - answer below

2003-03-25 Thread Bill Anderson
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 11:25, Rigler, Steve wrote: > Interesting: > > "Starting with Red Hat Linux 9 the numbering system for > the consumer release will be stated only as an integer." > > So RH is trying to confuse everybody the same way Sun did with the Solaris > version numbers. Yes, I'm su

RE: RHCE certifications and how current they are - answer below

2003-03-25 Thread Rigler, Steve
PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RHCE certifications and how current they are - answer below On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:21:09AM -0800, Rick Johnson wrote: > >>Its not the version number that people care about...the RHCE cert is based > &g

RHCE certifications and how current they are - answer below

2003-03-25 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:21:09AM -0800, Rick Johnson wrote: > >>Its not the version number that people care about...the RHCE cert is based > >>on version numbers. So the big jump in version numbers makes the cert > >>worthless a lot faster! > > > Those people haven't taken the 6 hour exam (most