On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 07:33:51PM -0500, Paul Munro wrote:
As someone who had to take a CCNA to keep my job, I would say that I agree with the last assessment of their worth. CCNA and all other related exams are merely a peek at whether you know the Cisco way etc. The test I took was very easy--in fact, nothing like I had been warned of or imagined :-O
The best of it is that you pay to become indoctrinated & then they try and get you to `upgrade' your qualification ie. the NT/2K & MS certification fiasco. Even the Jesuits didn't go that far!
On a separate note I was considering Red Hat 7.2 this week, but someone here mentioned it had problems with ext3 etc., has anyone had any experience with 7.2; and the other question is: is SuSE 7.3 any good
I patched my 2.2.19 kernel on my laptop for ext3 last week so I haven't had a chance to really assess it. FWIW, I haven't heard of any major problems with it & it's a fairly straightforward procedure if you're used to rolling your own kernel. I think if there were any major problems with it then RedHat wouldn't ship it, after all a solid file system is pretty critical. A search on Google for `ext3 2.2' or `ext3 2.4' will point you to the site where you can download the patch. I was thinking of RH7.2 but the only compelling reason for it was the journalled file system (just got new large HD) and XFree4 which would have been nice (too mean to download). I might hang on for a bit to let the 2.4 kernels settle down a bit before upgrading with a new distro. I always find that some stuff gets broken & needs fixing when I upgrade from a CD so I generally try and leave it as long as possible & just upgrade any vulnerabilities as needed.
(don't know if I should ask this on a "SuSE" list ;-)
Expect a posting from Roger doing his salesman bit ;-) Am I right in thinking that SuSe have gone for ReiserFS? -- Frank *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Boroughbridge. Tel: 01423 323019 --------- PGP keyID: 0xC0B341A3 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/ Now, let's SEND OUT for QUICHE!!