/johnny
When I was certified for version 4, it was good for 2 major release versions--it expired when RHEL 6 was released. Now, my RHEL 6 RHCE cert is good for three years--number of vrsions notwithstanding.
Asterisk is a CentOS derivative. I’m glad to see this. If Fedora was RHEL’s little brother for development, CentOS is its cousin.
One thing I find amusing: while RHEL is moving toward more GUI, Microsoft is moving away from it. Word is that future versions of MS Server are going to be installed as “core” by default with PowerShell driving it. I love PowerShell, but I fear Microsoft is going to push away clients.