"Vaughn L. Treude" wrote:
> Hello all:
> I've been doing custom industrial-control-type software in the MS world for
> a few years now. For the last couple of years, I've been playing with Linux
> in my spare time. I wouldn't call myself a guru, but I've had lots of Unix
> experience in the past so I think it wouldn't be a real steep learning curve
> to get back into it. The trouble is getting an initial (paying) Linux
> contract in order to get that crucial real-world experience.
In a world where most people have to shell out cash to a university or
trade school or some such in order to get experience working with
absurdly expensive hardware such as the systems sold by DEC, Sun, HP,
etc ... I think one of the coolest things about Linux is that not only
is everything you need to know to run it avaiable for the cost of the
bandwidth on the web (even nicely written HOWTOs!), but it will run on
inexpensive mass produced PC hardware.
If you want to get to know your system real well, dont install
binaries. Only install source. Sure, its a PITA, but you get a real
fundamental knowledge of how Linux/Unix actually works, as opposed to
the "this-goes-here" knowledge that is actually entirely all too
distribution specific. (when I get another machine, however, I am
going to start it off with something new, I'd like to be more familiar
with the GUI's everyone else is using now :-)
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