Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurgaon in association with Red Hat Academy organized a Red Hat Linux Seminar on 8th May 2015 at the College Campus. Students along with faculty members from the department of Computer Science and Engineering, Information Technology and Electronics and Computer Science attended the event.

Red Hat Academy is an open source education platform that provides hands - on training based on Linux. Linux is everywhere even at those places where most of us have not even thought. Tiny machines to Gaint Supercomputers are powered by Linux. The program is 100% web - deployed and managed curriculum that creates proven competencies from performance - based learning and testing. It helps students to develop skills in the latest Data Centers, and are hired by financial and investment institutions, leading computer manufacturers, and health care organizations. Amazon, IBM, Electrolux, Oracle Corporation, New York Stock Exchange, Cisco, Raspberry Pi and many more have adopted Linux & the list is ever growing. All bullet train tracking, maintenance, scheduling and controlling is Linux based. The OLX and Just dial have their user base just because of Linux.

Mr. Arun Eapen, Technical Delivery Manager & Certification Poobah-Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd. discussed about server versions of Linux for x86, x86 - 64, Itanium, PowerPC and IBM System, and desktop versions for x86 and x86 - 64.

He next discussed about the new editions in Linux 5 that substitute former Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS / ES / WS / Desktop:

1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform (former AS)

2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (former ES) (limited to two CPUs)

3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop with Workstation and Multi-OS option

4. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop with Workstation option (former WS)

5. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop with Multi - OS option

6. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (former Desktop)

He further discussed about RHEL 4, 3, and explained the prior releases that had four variants:

1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS for mission-critical/enterprise computer systems.

2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES for supported network servers.

3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS for technical power user enterprise desktops for high-performance computing.

4. Red Hat Desktop for multiple deployments of single-user desktops for enterprises.

Mr. Eapen said that since Red Hat is completely free and open source software, several groups have taken this source code and compiled their own versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, typically with the few changes. Groups which have undertaken this include CentOS , Oracle Linux, Scientific Linux, White Box Enterprise Linux, StartCom Enterprise Linux, Pie Box Enterprise Linux, X/OS, Lineox, and Bull's XBAS for high - performance computing. All provide a free mechanism for applying updates without paying a service fee to the distributor.

The next session was delivered by Mr. Alok Srivastava, CEO of Network Nuts Pvt. Ltd, Technology. He talked about the Red Hat Product Process and the variations of Linux available in market right now like: RH Enterprise Linux, RH Enterprise Virtualization, RH Enterprise Openstack etc. He also threw light on the features of RH Enterprise Linux which range from greater stability to higher certainty and better flexibility. He discussed about a Linux containers which is a lightweight virtual environment. He highlighted how the existing problems of the site during peak load can be resolved by moving to cloud during peak hours.

To conclude the talked of the hierarchy of certificate courses offered by the Red Hat Academy:

1. RHCA – Red Hat Certified Architect proves their skills using Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other Red Hat technologies within existing architectures or when moving to new ones. A Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) is a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) who attained Red Hat's highest level of certification.

2. RHCDS - Red Hat Certified Data Centre Specialist has the skills and knowledge necessary to build reliable, available, scalable, and manageable solutions in mission-critical data center environments using fully-supported open source technologies from Red Hat.

3. RHCSS - Red Hat Certified Security Specialist is a security course that validates advanced knowledge and skills in using Red Hat Enterprise Linux to meet the security conditions of today's enterprise environment.

4. RHCVA - Red Hat Certified Virtual Administrator possesses the skills, knowledge, and abilities required to deploy and manage virtualization infrastructure, hosts, and guests using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

5. RHCE - Red Hat Certified Expertise takes the RHCE or Red hat Certified JBoss Developer (RHCJD) as a prerequisite, and also requires candidates to earn at least five certificates of expertise within one of the concentrations: Datacenter, Cloud, Application Platform or Enterprise Application Development. Expertise areas include OpenStack, hybrid cloud storage, JBoss administration, platform as a service (PaaS), deployment and systems management, virtualization, clustering and storage management, server hardening and performance tuning. Each certificate requires passing a performance-based exam, which lasts up to six hours.

6. RHCE - Red Hat Certified Engineer is designed to test and validate the skills and knowledge necessary to work as a senior-level Linux system administrator. Topics covered include advanced IP routing and services, managing runtime kernel behavior, working with iSCSI, automating maintenance tasks with shell scripts and working with networking services for Web, FTP, NFS, SMB, SMTP, SSH and more. An RHSCA is a prerequisite for the RHCE.

7. RHCSA - Red Hat Certified System Administrator is this foundation Red Hat certification. It vets essential skills in handling files, working at the command line and using system documentation, along with managing systems (boot-up, identifying processes, start/stop virtual machines, controlling systems), configuring storage partitions and logical volumes and more.

The seminar ended with a valedictory session. Prof. Vishal Bharti, HOD CSE delivered the vote of thanks and concluded the event.

Overall the session was very knowledgeable and informative for all the students.