The Red Hat Certified Challenge
by the editorial team
We’ve read your emails, and we’ve seen your posts. It’s pretty clear that you’re all smart cookies. Well, the time has come to test your open source smarts. Introducing the first ever Red Hat Certified Challenge.
The concept is simple. Think up the most difficult question possible regarding open source. Each week, we’ll announce a new question category. Submit your question, the correct answer, and the source to contest@redhat.com. We’ll randomly choose questions to ask our Red Hat Certified Challenge judges.
After that, the judges will be able to use their personal knowledge to try to answers your question. If that’s not enough, they will be able to search through any and all sources until they find the answer. The question that takes the most amount of research to answer will win some Red Hat swag along with a year’s worth of bragging rights.
The choice is yours. Are you up for the Red Hat Certified Challenge?
This week’s category is: History of open source
Before you dive right in and email us a question, let us give you some background of what you’re up against.
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Jon Benedict Job title: Global Professional Services consultant |
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Karlos Smith Job title: Consultant, Global Services, Red Hat, Inc. |
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Paul Batkowski Job title: Technical account manager, Global Support Services, Red Hat, Inc. |
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Ivan Makfinsky Job title: Red Hat Consultant/Instructor |
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Stuart Kirk Job title: Senior consultant, Global Professional Services, Red Hat, Inc. |
September 18th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Wow!! Ivan Makfinsky’s first installed Linux distribution was Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0! Impressive!
September 18th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Karlos,
Who needs “custom rolled Linux-based firewalls” when the consulatant installing the kernel wears a dress and carries a sword?
September 19th, 2007 at 6:48 am
I would hope that was venerable Red Hat Linux 6.0 and 5.1 as I would expect that these consultants have in fact installed the OS they are selling to customers :).
Wow.. I wish Karlos had been at Red Hat in the good old days.. I could have used him to watch my back when dealing with some difficult customers.
September 19th, 2007 at 10:56 am
What can I say? I traveled from the future to be here. :)
October 2nd, 2007 at 7:14 pm
I just learned about this and it’s probably to enter, so let me provide my own Q & A.
Q: What widely-used free software licenses were written by former IBM employees?
A: GPL and LGPL. RMS worked for IBM in NYC the summer before he started at MIT. Moglen worked as a systems programmer for IBM before he went to law school.
Q: Name two well-known language who once worked for IBM?
A: Rasmum Lersdorf (PHP) and Jim Gosling (Java)
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May 13th, 2008 at 4:52 am
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