On 10/12/2009 22:56, Richard Forth wrote: > Intersting to find out, but does anyone know what demand there is for > unix / linux skills iin the workplace? I know this may be off topic > but then the whole thread has shifted into getting linux into schools, > so I just wondered, wouldnt it be good to feel fully armed with all > the basics of computing including some awareness of unix and linux > before leaving school? Its part of my job! All of our Oracle database servers run on top of RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.* . Our server and network monitoring tools also run on Linux. We even use GIT and SVN to store the source code ( Along with other Windows tools as our applications are .Net web applications)
Knowing both Windows and *nix has been very useful for me. > > I say this beacuse I have no recollection of linux in my school years, > we had BBC's and the odd apple macintosh (which I supppose is as close > to unix as I got) but then it was all gui based and I never had any > concept of root, sudo and what a shell was until I was well into my > twenties and that was through experimentation, in fact everything > since secondary school was IBM compatible PC's running Windows in > various forms, (95/98 on a Novell Netware back end I beleive it was at > college.) > At primary school, we also had BBC Micros so we were using BASIC and Acorns OS (DFS or ADFS). When I went to secondary school (1990-1995) we had RM Nimbus PC-186 machines running DOS 3.3 and Windows 3.0. Towards the end of my time at secondary school, we were using 386/486 type machines. My first unix experience was in 1995 at college. We used a SCO unix host for C programming and a bit of shell scripting. Linux was quite new then. I got a copy of Slackware on about 7 * 1.44Mb disk images. I then did some work on Solaris. > The thing is unless you have parents who are into FOSS then all you > are fed is MS, and you begin to beleive by the time you leave school > that MS is the only operating system as the famous quote "I'm a PC", > yeah well so am I but I run Linux on my PC thanks all the same. :D > -- Andy http://www.retrocomputers.eu _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
