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.

Nowadays people can set up on shared hosting and configure things in a web browser and don't have to have a lot of low level knowledge.

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.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 11:12 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

Hi,

I'm a PHP developer and always thought all opensource developers had at
least some knowledge of Linux.

Recently I watched a YouTube video that stated otherwise. The presenter
said it is important to know Linux which will set one apart from the
crowd.

I have been "messing"/"playing"/"working" with Linux since around 1998
or so. Learned a lot and have a lot to learn. Thought all opensource
developers had at least a fundamental understanding of Linux.

Is it true most do not know Linux?

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?

Thanks in advance!!

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