Really? Most IT grads (college, university, private) I come across (training, conferences, etc.) seem predominantly windows trained. Unix/linux dudes and dudettes (jeesh did I just say that? I'm just a kid at heart) seem to be engineering/physics graduates - a generally scary lot 'cause most of them are pretty smart and worse yet think they know everything. At least they sure can toss those acronyms around with the best of them. They have more in common with IBM (that most of them seem to dislike until they get a job) than they realize.
I just don't see this onslaught of young men and women with this dynamite unix/linux skill. At least not in North America. Maybe elsewhere. I'm ready to classify this on most days as yet another urban legend, you know, like the mole people that live seven levels below Grand Central station. I have also encountered some real, and I mean real, sloppy practices in linux with many of these youngsters. Linux covers them pretty well until the fan gets hit, and then watch out. Linux is prime time but a lot of the technoweenies aren't ready for the big show. David George Haddad said: > But *IX is taught extensively in > schools so that "newbies" arrive with a working knowledge.
