Dowsing Linux jobs and skills

Re:Dowsing Linux jobs and skills by jrockway on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @09:54AM (#3319466)

Yes, it does seem weird. A lot of people claim to "know Linux" when their job is to develop server applications on Eclipse running on Windows and they eventually copy some WAR (via Samba, of course) to a Linux production box. They don't know anything about Linux userspace or the UNIX API; they write once and run somewhere else.

Once, I was tasked with providing a native library to a team writing a Java application. They told me they developed on Windows and deployed to Linux. A few weeks before their app was set to go live, they deployed to production and my library didn't work. Why? Their production platform was actually Solaris. "Same thing, right?"

Wrong.

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Re:Dowsing Linux jobs and skills by metaobject on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @10:00AM (#3319493)

"write once and run somewhere else" == WORSE - my Tuesday has been made

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Re:Dowsing Linux jobs and skills by jsight on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @12:27PM (#3320012)

Yes, guys who develop all day in Windows, look vaguely lost at a command line (constantly forgetting their place in the dir structure, not knowing the basics of rsync or scp, not knowing how to unzip a jar, etc) always call themselves Linux experts. Calling all Unix-like systems "Linux" is a common problem as well, unfortunately.

But I run into Linux "sysadmins" with all of the same issues. There's a real problem with a lack of competence in this industry, IMO.

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