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How to Hire a Linux Administrator
Skapare writes "Hiring a good system administrator can be difficult. Hiring one while converting to Linux may take someone with special skills. Tom Adelstein is exploring just what is needed, and what should be avoided, in an article at Linux Journal about Linux System Administrators. I say hire more than just one."
While that sounds funny, I have found more solutions to technical problems from /. than anywhere else on the planet.
Especially software recommendations, which I can't get enough of. Seems like someone dig something good up everyday.
In my experience, that's a recipe for disaster. In my old workplace, there were four of us, and there were constant power struggles. Eventually, things got better when some of us left, or so I hear.
For every problem, there is at least one solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
I've been using Linux as my primary or secondary OS at home for 3 years, and I easily know all the questions on that site. I'm wondering how to make that translate into an actual job, given that my degree is (going to be) in the field of Philosophy and I have no real experience administering computers in a professional setting. Are there certifications? Where do you start to get experience? Help, I'm going to need a job when I get out of college!
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.