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I received some good feedback from my “Linux SysAdmin Rant” entry.
Saeez Pazoki has some suggestions:
* Do not forget to mention that Windows is insecure wherever you can. (But never say that you “can not” make it secure).
* Write Micro$osft, instead of Microsoft
Masoud has warned users to check the disk partitioning setup before proceeding with installation. But I suggest leaving it as default and let Linux remove all your Windows partitions. You are a Linux SysAdmin, so you don’t want that Windows crap anymore. Don’t you?
More suggestions from me:
* Make sure you have read all open letters from Eric S. Raymond. You’ll love them. At least they are so funny.
Anyone else has more suggestions? Please post in comments.
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as a SysAdmin , you should care of latest Security Advisories and released patch and hotfixes , you should aware of related mailing lists , forum’s and etc , you should never forget “physical Security” and its approaches
this is probably snobby of me but unless I see some other flavor of unix (yes I think of linux as a flavor of unix) on someones resume I don’t take them seriously. You should have touched HP-UX, IRIX, AIX, Solaris or *BSD at least before I would even consider the person for a sys admin job. It’s great that the GUI installers have made linux easier to use but not knowing what happens behind the scene will cause problems for these “linux admins” the first time they can’t use a gui tool to fix a problem.
I believe the most important characteristic a sysadmin should have is being responsible. Supervising an irresponsible sysadmin is the most horrible experience one can have; more like a constant pain in the neck; the more skilled he is, the worse.
Yes, everybody can install every operating system. But being a sysadmin is almost down to troubleshooting. Why do you get upset by seeing someone claim they are a sysadmin. Know your distance from them and live with them happily. Those claims are a normal thing that happens to us when we get to know something new in the early stages. They are excited for they know something new. They’ll get to know more when the rubber hits the road.
IMHO worse than the linux-wanna-be’s are the people who are constantly advocating for the particular technology they are using and state that anyone using anything else is dumb. They are overrating the tools, and value them more than the job. They are hobbyists at best. This is no different from the religious wars. It’s not the religion that is important, if you are seeking enlightenment.
And the fact that linux is easy to install is rather good than bad. Just think about those hard-won skills in debugging programs in mainframes, or writing resident program in DOS, and that they are useless today.
it’s funny for you but i install redhat with your comment.
thank’s
I love Linux, I really do. But a lot of the users are morons. Generally, they act like there’s two operating systems: GNU/Linux and Windows*. It’s idiocy. And that GNU/Linux is the only “pure” system, whatever that means.
linux as pure ?? hahhahahahhaha
linux is neither system V or bsd, it’s a complete mix. In that way it’s about as impure as it can get.