The BSD Certification Courseware project kicked off with so much passion, led by our dear Dru Lavigne (I miss you, Dru!), but after a few years, it just fizzled out into... nothing?

I think it's critically important that BSD first gets known and loved by sysadmins around the globe.

@toomanysecrets

BSD Certification was broken by design from day one - let me tell you why.

If you take a Red Hat Linux training (or exam) - no one requires from you to do the same on Ubuntu and SLES and Alpine Linux as well.

BSD Certification required knowledge about:
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD
- NetBSD

While I respect and like other BSD projects - I only want FreeBSD part - as I do not do anything on NetBSD or OpenBSD - both personally or professionally ... yet I now need to learn 'their' way.

@toomanysecrets

... and do not get me wrong - I have big respect for NetBSD and OpenBSD and their communities and 'ecosystems' - and I would probably be running NetBSD when FreeBSD would not exist - but they are DIFFERENT OPERATING SYSTEMS.

That is why I made a decision to NOT touch BSD Certification in any way/form - because I only need/want FreeBSD part.

@vermaden @toomanysecrets

Just curious, who administers this cert?

@toomanysecrets @vermaden

Administered by a Linux org. Oh my. Oh my. XD

Not helping the whole "We're NOT a Linux distro, already!!!" thing. ;)