Spent the day today at Sun Microsystems with a few other trainers focusing on the differences of teaching Solaris system administration courses on x86 hardware.
The course was good and cleared up a few grey areas about the order files are looked for at boot time (like the exact location of the two parts of GRUB). Problem is, the Sun Certification exams were written when Solaris 10 was still using the Device Configuration Assistant (loading DOS drivers at boot time) so the old way and new way have to be taught. New exam questions are needed!
As far as teaching on x86 hardware, well I'm not too bothered as it has little effect on me (the hardware is usually faster for what I do) but I know that most students have SPARC hardware at work and would prefer that.
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