From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 1 6:56:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from penates.botcc.com (penates.BOTCC.com [208.230.0.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1828E37BE21 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 06:56:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from John.Flowers@botcc.com) Received: from danube.BOTCC.com by penates.botcc.com via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) with SMTP; 1 Mar 2000 14:56:13 UT Received: from BOTCC.com ([158.224.25.239]) by danube.BOTCC.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id FQR02Q00.36M; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 08:54:26 -0600 Message-ID: <38BD2F22.503D9B4B@BOTCC.com> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 08:54:26 -0600 From: "John Flowers" Organization: Board of Trade Clearing Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en]C-CCK-MCD (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Hovey Cc: Doug Barton , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Certifications References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My mistake. really what I probably should have asked what is the best way to learn FreeBSD. Through classes or as I am doing now, in the trenches grinding my way through? I do know many of those " Paper Certified" administrators, so I understand. Well back to the trenches I go. Before I go another question. I am building my FreeBSD workstation from the ground up. Does anyone have any suggestions for the board to use. and what processor would be best Intel or should I go towards the Alpha. I have been leaning towards an asus P2B-S, or ASUS P3C-S for a motherboard, with a Pentium 3. I am still researching the Alpha. thanks again, John Flowers Steve Hovey wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, John Flowers wrote: > > > > > Where do I go to find classes to be certified in FreeBSD. > > > > Short answer, there aren't any. Longer answer, it wouldn't mean > > anything even if there were. > > You are making that smart person mistake - those of us in the trenches > realise that certification courses are waste (Ive known several certified > stupid people) - BUT business is a game, and non-techie managers need > something to go by to feel they are making a good hire choice, and > unfortunately buy into the cert thing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message