----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Sy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 6:51 AM Subject: [plug] Re: On local Linux professionals' competence in variousdistros
> By the way, here is something I'm pretty sure of: if I had a guru helping > me out when I was feeling my way around Slackware, it would have been way > way way less painful. The guru-apprentice relationship is a very very good > way to learn Linux. andy, first of all... unix is a unix is a unix is a unix is a unix... in linux, the difference with other distro is that with their environment (eg. how services are started, package management tool, etc)... but they have the same in common which they are using the same kernel... the basic commands (eg. ps, ls, etc) are all the same to all distros... learning one's environment is only a short term problem... which doesnt really counts its competency... what really counts is that how a linux professional fine tune its system in various conditions...this is one of the criteria where competency starting to count... other criteria is how he or she understands a particular system works (eg. filesystem, paging/swapping, etc) having the same kernel and i know how to fine tune or optimize a kernel on a given distro, i can make this distro superb to other distros ( i think, this is what redhat is doing with their kernel).... with this, it doesnt matter what distro you are using..... furthermore, another competency begins if the admin knows how to optimize its service(s)... for example, he or she expert on linux but dont know how to optimize its database like firebird for example, it will affect its competency also... because system administrator is different from database administrator... therefore, you are not only looking for linux professionals but also database professionals also... fooler. P.S. have you tried running firebird on freebsd? my friends are shifting from linux to freebsd because firebird is 20% faster on freebsd than linux... -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
