What Unix differences? :-)

[Lucas Vogel]

Recruiting agencies are notorious for years of experience, because that
seems to be a benchmark for them in determining a person's qualifications.
The best defense I've found against YOE is fuzzy math ;)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Harrop [mailto:don@nis4u.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 8:37 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: What Unix differences? :-)
> 
> 
> All the Unicies share a lot in common.  Most of my background is with
> Linux flavors but recently I've been interviewing for a job 
> as an HP-UX
> admin so I've been playing around with it to see the differences.  Not
> many in my opinion.  Why people are demanding 3+ years 
> experience in any
> specific flavor of Unix (Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, whatever) just seems
> stupid to me.  They're not THAT different.
> 
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Jose Castillo wrote:
> 
> > There really isn't much to it. Solaris and Linux share ALOT 
> in common when
> > it comes to basic UNIX. Still, it is good to have Solaris 
> on your box, as
> > there are many things in Solaris that are different on 
> Linux. ie Disksuite,
> > Admintool, SAF, etc...
> > 
> > On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 17:58:45 -0700, 
> plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > wrote:
> > 
> > >  >     I have yet another opening for up to three Unix 
> Administrators with
> > the
> > >  
> > >  Wow, seems Solaris is definitly in severe demand. I just 
> may order
> > >  that copy of Solaris X86 afterall, I have two machines 
> here, learning
> > >  to get Solaris interoperating with Linux smoothly would 
> probably be an
> > >  additional plus, right?
> > >  
> > >  -- 
> > >  jkenner @ mindspring . com__
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