On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Corey Kovacs <corey.kovacs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I agree with this except for the bit questioning your base knowledge > solely on the > fact that you are a Comp Sci major. So am I and I am one exam away from my RHCA. I didn't really mean to question the OP's base knowledge because of his study path, sorry if it came across like that :) However a lot of programmers simply don't *need* to know the system administration side of things. Like I said, a race car driver doesn't need to know how a car works to be able to use it with expert skill. It does help though! I personally think that LPIC might be better, especially since a computer science major, who I would assume is going to focus more on programming, could be thrown into any *nix environment. Red Hat does include some proprietary sysadmin stuff that isn't in other distros, and I'd hate to see the OP become married to some ways of doing things and then get thrown into a debian/gentoo/whatever environment. I think a fundamental knowledge would be more important. Purely from a financial aspect, if the OP was going to just use the CS degree as resume fodder and actually focus on system administration then I'd definitely stick with the Red Hat certs. -Matty -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
