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Managing Young Sys Admins At Oregon State Open Source Lab

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the can't-beat-real-world-experience dept.

mstansberry writes "Lance Albertson, architect and systems administrator at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, uses a sys admin staff of 18-21-year-old undergrads to manage servers for some high-profile, open-source projects (Linux Master Kernel, Linux Foundation, Apache Software Foundation, and Drupal to name a few). In this Q&A, Albertson talks about the challenges of using young sys admins and the lab's plans to move from Cfengine to Puppet for systems management."

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  1. Re:Especially if they are training developers by lukas84 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just like no university has classes on being a Janitor.

    I really don't see why someone with an university degree would want to work as a system administrator.