Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-21 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
> Message-ID: 20180716172740.20b5a7ff () mephala ! kappastar ! com On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 15:27:40 Marko wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 23:05:09 -0300 > Man Hobby wrote: > > > What is the opinion of employers about OpenBSD? > > There is reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job? > > If not, why?

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-18 Thread Rupert Gallagher
You may always apply to the UN: they just require a high-school degree, english and a second language like spanish or french, a first ITIL certificate, working knowledge of windows xp and office, ibm lotus notes (they are big on wasting charity funds on Microsoft and Lotus licenses), and a

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-18 Thread Rupert Gallagher
The name of the game is to select the best candidate, not to hire the average joe. On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 05:02, Jacqueline Jolicoeur wrote: >> Spot the candidate that is aware of common standards, is brave enough to >> come forward saying that the test is flowed (we ask to write /var stuff

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-16 Thread Diana Eichert
I've been on more than one interview committee, if you put OpenBSD experience on your resume you would stand out in my eyes. However most of my co-workers know very little about anything beside MAC, Winders or Linux, therefore it wouldn't help with them. Use OpenBSD because you want to. diana

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-16 Thread Marko Cupać
On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 23:05:09 -0300 Man Hobby wrote: > What is the opinion of employers about OpenBSD? > There is reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job? > If not, why? > If there is not reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job, why use > OpenBSD? There are employers and employers, as

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-16 Thread Siju George
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 12:58 PM Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 23:05:09 -0300 > > > > If there is not reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job, why use > > OpenBSD? > I did not learn it to get a job. I used it in my job instead to get a better network firewall than the M S

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 23:05:09 -0300 Man Hobby wrote: > Hi, > > What is the opinion of employers about OpenBSD? > > There is reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job? > > If not, why? > > If there is not reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job, why use > OpenBSD? One reason is so that

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-15 Thread Jacqueline Jolicoeur
> Spot the candidate that is aware of common standards, is brave enough to come > forward saying that the test is flowed (we ask to write /var stuff inside > /usr), and returns the POSIX-compliant solution, citing the standard. What if they are brave enough to decide to work elsewhere? A place

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-15 Thread Rupert Gallagher
Spot the candidate that is aware of common standards, is brave enough to come forward saying that the test is flowed (we ask to write /var stuff inside /usr), and returns the POSIX-compliant solution, citing the standard. On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 18:31, Bodie wrote: > On 15.7.2018 17:12,

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-15 Thread Bodie
On 15.7.2018 17:12, Rupert Gallagher wrote: If someone is cocky about a certain unix-like OS on their CV but is unable to adhere to the standards while also using other unix-like OSs, they are shown the door where they came from. A test example that comes to mind is writing /var content into

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-15 Thread Rupert Gallagher
If someone is cocky about a certain unix-like OS on their CV but is unable to adhere to the standards while also using other unix-like OSs, they are shown the door where they came from. A test example that comes to mind is writing /var content into /usr. Many people in this list would not get

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-14 Thread Tom Smyth
Hello Man, all, please find my answers in line and a little more in line On 14 July 2018 at 03:05, Man Hobby wrote: > Hi, > > What is the opinion of employers about OpenBSD? > as a small business owner who has benefited and use OpenBSD in some critical components of our infrastructure we

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-14 Thread Daniel Bolgheroni
On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 11:47:48AM +, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > You may also (dangerously) get used to having defaults that are actually > sane and come to expect that everything has a man page with content that > actually matches the software and provides useful information. > > Which in

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-14 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
On 07/14/18 04:05, Man Hobby wrote: > What is the opinion of employers about OpenBSD? Unfortunately you will find that despite our best efforts, a largish chunk of the world, and even more so the less hands-on technical parts of it, has not heard about OpenBSD at all. If you're lucky enough to

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-14 Thread flipchan
Pf is a must to know in my company On July 14, 2018 2:05:09 AM UTC, Man Hobby wrote: >Hi, > >What is the opinion of employers about OpenBSD? > >There is reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job? > >If not, why? > >If there is not reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job, why use >OpenBSD?

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-13 Thread Peter J. Philipp
I was extremely lucky 2 jobs ago to have an employer who requires only that I be able to SSH, and be able to work remotely across continents.  So I made OpenBSD my workstation.  The last job I had to use windows10 and I cried... and eventually quit, I can't work with that, and I wish I had my

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-13 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
I have managed to make a decent living for myself as a consultant who works primarily on OpenBSD. When I am hiring/evaluating applicants, having OpenBSD experience on their resume shows me that they don't fuck around and indicates that they are passionate about Unix and have a personal drive

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-13 Thread Ax0n
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 9:05 PM, Man Hobby wrote: > Hi, > > What is the opinion of employers about OpenBSD? > As a hiring manager, I see OpenBSD experience on a resume as a sign that one likely has a firm grasp of UNIX. Several of my employers have used it for mission critical work such as

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-13 Thread Jay Hart
Do you have a car? Do you drive for a living? If not, then why have car??? J > Hi, > > What is the opinion of employers about OpenBSD? > > There is reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job? > > If not, why? > > If there is not reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job, why use > OpenBSD?

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-13 Thread Daniel Jakots
On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 23:05:09 -0300, Man Hobby wrote: > Hi, > > What is the opinion of employers about OpenBSD? Best Operating System. > There is reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job? > > If not, why? Learning OpenBSD will make you learn many many many things about Unix systems. > If

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-13 Thread Christopher Turkel
I use OpenBSD as my desktop though since I develop Motif at work it hasn't hurt my job skills. On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 10:10 PM Man Hobby wrote: > Hi, > > What is the opinion of employers about OpenBSD? > > There is reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job? > > If not, why? > > If there is

Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-13 Thread Man Hobby
Hi, What is the opinion of employers about OpenBSD? There is reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job? If not, why? If there is not reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job, why use OpenBSD?