31 Dec
2011
31 Dec
'11
12:48 a.m.
On 30/12/11 10:54 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Liam
Proven<lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, that may be true, but says little about the relative sophistication
of the systems (as I've been laboriously trying to show :)
It says something about the lack of imagination and insecurity of hiring
mentality that insists on hiring PHP devs when what they need are
software engineers. Any decent sysadmin can move between systems fairly
easily.
I do understand that it tends to dominate in the
US and very
US-dominated areas, though, and in the commercial paid-support sphere.
Quite so.
If I was working as a Linux sysadmin, I expect
I'd have to learn RHEL
or Centos and use it.
From 2003 through 2010, I used an RHEL or CentOS
desktop/laptop every
day to maintain a pile of RHEL or CentOS servers (physical
and
virtual). ...
I'm not trying to claim RedHat is better, just the most commonly
sought skill-set for Linux admins in the States. ...
I started with 4BSD on a 2MB VAX-11/750 and Ultrix 1.1 on a 3MB
VAX-11/730. Lots of improvements since then, but unlike my
compatriots who were fiddling with MS-DOS, the commands and languages
and skills I learned 26 years ago are still relevant to my day-to-day
job
That is an under-appreciated fact about Unix :)
What next -- people will say programming and century-old math are related?!
--Toby
(though it's nice to be doing it on hardware that
costs hundreds
of dollars rather than hundreds of thousands of dollars - that's a
handy consequence of Moore's Law).
-ethan