Hello Man, all, please find my answers in line and a little more in line
On 14 July 2018 at 03:05, Man Hobby <manhob...@gmail.com> 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 think highly of it. and we are trying to expand our use of it in our business. I dont think OpenBSD , BSD (or any Unix) is thought enough in college It for some reason is not being introduced to college students studying computer related degrees. as an employer I would say that there could be more training programs offered online to make the barrier of entry easier for BSD I particularly like the effort that the folks in http://www.bsdcertification.org/ are doing in particular I appreciate the time and effort Dru Lavigne has put in to try to make the certification exams mean something. I have taken the exam and the questions were well written, and fair. and gave a fair indication of my knowledge of BSD at the time. there are many certifications out there that are not worth the paper they are written on, either because of exam dumps, exam questions not quite capturing the candidates abilities. I think the availability of readily available trained staff is a consideration when a business opts to adopt a technology. and I think that this can impact whether or not a business adopts BSD > > There is reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job? > Proficiency in OpenBSD would mean that you have a good technical aptitude you are not afraid of the command-line and you probably can script a few things to make our processes more efficient. and you would be capable of managing Unix systems in particular and with some additional training on systemd you would be able to run some linux systems :) (not saying you want to learn systemd) . OpenBSD skills are transferable and chances are you would be able to show other Sys Admins in that job the awesomeness of OpenBSD :) > If not, why? > > If there is not reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job, why use > OpenBSD? > Are you looking for a job or a career where you will be happy and possibly make a difference ? there are lots of jobs with lower skill requirements however the opportunity to develop your skills is limited. the more challenging engaging jobs are fewer and farther between, Lastly I would like to add that the project is not about being popular or widely deployed it is about improving security, through the use of good design and coding practices. where good design and coding is not enough they innovate to create exploit mitigation technologies. there is alot of work that they do to make all these things happen. they focus on that rather than trying to market themselves, or train newcomers. I think users (like me) should probably put more time into helping the project (if we cant code perhaps we can write about how we build systems using openBSD) For more information on getting started on OpenBSD check out http://www.openbsdjumpstart.org/ http://www.bsdcertification.org/ http://www.openbsd.org/events.html https://www.romanzolotarev.com/ (the stuff that this guy has done in the past year) https://bsdly.blogspot.com/ there is some git up site that has a tonne of useful articles and blogs on how other people got cool things to work on openbsd and this would be useful (but I cant remember it)
