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

[David A. Bandel]

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Regurgitating the prose of Chong Yu Meng Chong Yu Meng
<chongym at cymulacrum.net> on Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:56:21 +0800:

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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).
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|| 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).
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|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".

vi is not 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.

you install graphical tools on a server?  that's lame.  The only
"graphical" tools I install on a server is webmin for the truly clueless
(and I have lots of them).  Again, those folks rank as very novice
admins and not to be trusted with too much responsibility for the
systems.  Adding and deleting users and the like is about it.

|
|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.

Well, I don't do Windoze (I pass those folks off to equally clueless
"consultants" around here).  And those that do don't get to go run out
and drink a 6pm, they're usually too busy following the M$ mantra
"reboot, reboot, reinstall" to have any fun.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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