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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:Serious question. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Because Greek mythology is reserved for server names, and everything else is copyrighted.

  2. Re:Especially if they are training developers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    So we don't have to work side by side with fucktards like you.

  3. Re:I think I've been on the internet too long... by Titoxd · · Score: 3, Funny

    They are server administrators, which means they probably look like the average slashdotter. Do you really want to see that?

  4. Re:Serious question. by thatskinnyguy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I heard from one of the higher-ups that Gnome projects' names are more like an inside joke. "How can we make some of the best software out there and give them the most aweful names?"

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    The game.