[PLUG] Once again Linux has proven to me it is good for the career

2012-03-23 Thread Michael Rasmussen
A flip of Kirk's recent rant. Sometime around 1994 or 1995 I replaced the SCO Unix and Novell Netware at home with a network of Linux machines. Used them to learn the back end of all the fundamental services: firewall, DNS, NTP, SMTP, SNMP ... Then whenever a problem came up at work that

Re: [PLUG] Once again Linux has proven to me it is good for the career

2012-03-23 Thread chris (fool) mccraw
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 06:19, Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.us wrote: A flip of Kirk's recent rant. My story is quite similar: As a freshman in college in 1994, I was fresh off an internship with a SCO unix consulting agency; all of the employees had boats, worked 20-hour or less weeks,

Re: [PLUG] Once again Linux has proven to me it is good for the career

2012-03-23 Thread Mike Connors
A flip of Kirk's recent rant. Although I have some CS studies and Linux/Unix admin work background, most of my formal training and career has been with Cisco Nortel Network Engineering. My first encounters with Unix was with the SUN network management boxes we used for managing the Nortel

Re: [PLUG] Once again Linux has proven to me it is good for the career

2012-03-23 Thread Word Wizard
Linux vs Windows and others My work and hobbies are a mixture of tech support, tech documentation, creative and political opinion writing. Though I started out in tech in the 80s' on a Unix System V at PCC Sylvania and my first internship and initial employment was in a Unix engineering