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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Is the RHCSA worth it? (self.linux)

submitted 4 months ago by databender to c/[email protected]

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See title; I'm considering it, but the courses bundles are expensive

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[–] thirteene 2 points 4 months ago

Depends on your end goal, don't pay for yourself. Tech is hard to break into, certificates can help elevate your resume when you do not have a network to leverage. It's often good to "top off" your resume when market trends shift and you are lacking experience. For instance right now AWS certificates are likely strong additions if you don't have any cloud background. My rhcsa helped get my first job and is a positive for legacy LAMP and java shops. Trending forward: you will primarily be using it to support Linux based docker containers and a lot of the networking and hardware configuration will be obfuscated away. There is a non-zero amount of file ownership and user groups; but existing organizations will have figured that out already.