Should an opensource dev know Linux

[Matt Graham]

On 2022-04-21 11:54, JD Austin via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 11:12 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
>> And is it true that it is good, for a dev, to be able to put they
>> have basic familiarity of Linux on their resume?

It certainly can't hurt.  If I have to job-hunt again, the true 
statement, "The first kernel patch I wrote compiled, booted, and fixed 
the problem." will be on my resume somewhere.  The maintainer wrote a 
*better* patch a day later, but hey, small victories.

> I'd say that's true throughout IT; people are pretty specialized now
> compared to how it was in the 90s when you had to build the whole
> stack to do it yourself. 
> I'm one of the few people at work that knows programming, databases,
> networking, DNS, Linux, Windows, etc because I've been doing this
> since the late 80s too. 

> Most people I see know one or maybe two areas at most. 

Being a generalist can be extremely useful, as it allows you to 
contribute to more than one area of work.  And potentially save people's 
butts when the specialist is on vacation and the specialist's (code, 
database, whatever) suddenly barfs.  I have never really regretted 
learning new junk, though it's anyone's guess whether I'll ever use Java 
again.

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