[OT]: RH Whoredom [ was Re: OT: I feel vindicated ...]

[David Bandel]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:44:45 -0500, Michael Scottaline
<mscottaline at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 07:33:13 -0700, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> <snip>
> > It's not just your corner of the world. Linux is only a small piece of
> > the employment marked in Colorado, but you can guarantee that 90% of
> > those using Linux are using some form of RedHat. RedHat is, alas,
> > survival. That may change slowly as Novell/Suse churns its way through
> > its older base of proprietary Netware.
> =================================
> I realize there are some difference in administrative tools, but
> Novell's desktop distro has numerous similarities to RH:  both use
> gnome as default desktop and both are RPM based distros.  I would
> imagine an administrator comfortable with one could easily learn the
> other in short order, no??
> Mike

My feeling is this:  Linux is Linux.

If you can't easily transition from one distro to another, you're not
really a Linux admin.  You're a junior RH admin or a junior SuSE
admin, etc.  But 98%+ of all distros are carbon copies of the others.

Differences:  install tools, some admin tools (vi is the same on all,
so ...), method for updating, bootup (BSD vs SysV if we're including
Slack).

Beyond that, not much.  So if you can admin X but not Y, you're not
really a Linux admin (and absolutely NOT a senior admin of any kind).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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