Re:Astronaut Selection
by rbanffy on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @07:25AM
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Well... They are running Debian on the ISS. That should reduce the need for sysadmins, at least.
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Wait what? Switching to Linux reduces the need for sysadmins?
Re:Astronaut Selection
by odonnellryan on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @11:08AM
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Essentially. Backups and updates are much more hands-on with Windows than with Linux. There exists bad software for both Windows and Linux, but there are more (seemingly..) awful applications running on Windows systems: ancient apps that are still being updated several times a year (no package manager to help), the deprecated databases those applications use...
There are good configuration management tools for both systems, and both systems are good at what they do. Just seems there's more awful things running on your average Windows server.
Re:Astronaut Selection
by vinceguidry on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @10:44AM
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It should if you hire competent ones. One guy can maintain many many more Linux servers than he could Windows servers.
I had a job at an IT outsourcing shop several years ago. Before I got there, one guy administered some 50 Debian / Ubuntu servers. They needed two Windows guys to maintain half as many Windows servers.