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

[Chong Yu Meng]

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David Bandel wrote:
| 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).

Hi David,

I've learned to keep my expectations really low. I want to avoid a
situation where someone's entire business depends on some in-depth
knowledge that my sysadmin does not have and considers ... "esoteric".

For example, I get asked a lot why I don't use the graphical tools
provided by RH, why I don't use Gnome, etc. Teaching a young sysadmin
the "cryptic" commands, and how Linux works sometimes works, especially
if you have a particularly gifted or committed understudy, but
frequently, I get a former Windows administrator who just wants to know
where to click so he can go off dancing and drinking with his buddies at
6pm. This is why distro choice matters so much: people who are used to
pointing and clicking, and - more importantly - used to a particular
interface, often cannot and will not make the transition to something
different.

During the dot-com boom and the time when Linux was red-hot, my goal
used to be to try to convert as many people over to Linux as possible.
Not because it was the fad, but because it was the only responsible, and
viable, and legal alternative to The Other Operating System. I have
since lost a lot of my former idealism and now, I just go with whatever
works. If the customer wants Red Hat, that's what I'll give to him; if
they want Microsoft stuff and can pay for it, I'm not too proud to do
Windows either.

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~ Pascal Chong


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