I heartily agree (surprise!) with all that's been said. I'd also like you to consider one of the questions I ask a job candidate: "Describe your home network." You can tell a lot from that answer. Especially when the candidate gets a little gleam in his eye or mists up thinking about that favorite retired server.
Couple of suggestions for "crazy Linux" (by craziness order of magnitude): http://www.linuxmint.com/ http://www.ubuntu.com/ http://www.archlinux.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/ http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ You can also test the waters and see how many there really are if you check for you favorite flavor-of-the-month at http://distrowatch.com/ Go forth and have some fun! Dan On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Daniel Holiday <[email protected]> wrote: > <snip> > Ray is also right: DO NOT JUST USE WINDOWS. Anyone who just stuck with > the Windows did not do as well as those that knew how to get any OS to > work. Make your daily OS some crazy linux so you learn. > > You will be head and shoulders above all the other candidates for a > job if you put this kind of effort into it. > > -- Dan McGinn-Combs [email protected] Google Voice: +1 404 492 7532 Peachtree City, Georgia USA
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