Found via Slashdot, apparently there is work underway to start BSD certification testing as early as April of 2006. The interesting part is that they will have seperate certifications for the various BSD’s, hence there being a FreeBSD specific certification.

This is very cool– I started the certification program for Linux in 2001 or so through Sair as it seemed to have the broadest, distribution agnostic Linux certifications at the time and completed the “Installation and Configuration of Linux” certification. Shortly after that the company seemed to implode, and I’m really surprised it’s still around at any capacity at this point. I don’t really use FreeBSD to much professional capacity, but it’s something I love playing around on at home, and has hosted my website for almost 6 years now.

I started off in Linux 1997 and got frustrated by it’s frequent changes which kept breaking stuff, and switched to FreeBSD in late 99 and haven’t looked back. I still use Linux for sure, but much prefer FreeBSD. I was also to surprisingly able to get JRun 3 to work on it way back when, but didn’t have a way to connect to it via Apache unfortunately.

Unfamilliar with FreeBSD? You can read an intoduction about it here, including a list of various large companies who use it.