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Red Hat West Coast Division?
hfcs writes "Just browsing the Red Hat Careers page, and a good number of their open positions are listed as being in San Franscisco. Just a couple of weeks ago, all positions were listed as being in RTP, NC. Hmmmm.... "
God, how did I get sucked into this stupid exchange?
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>Same kernel, same programs.
So, if it is all the "same", why even have different distributions? I understand that the kernel is the kernel, that most of the GNU utilities are going to be the same, yet there obviously must be advantages/differences to other distribution.
>Linus uses Red Hat at work and SuSE at home. You calling him a newbie?
I didn't call anyone anything. I like RedHat. I learned a lot by installing and using it. I was a complete newbie and RH was my first experience, it was pretty easy. I'm ready to explore further into other distributions.
I'm not trying to start up yet another distribution war. I'm a convert to linux who is curious about distributions other than RedHat. I guess I should just shut up now since I'm not getting any useful information from the benevolent guardians of truth and knowledge that obviously inhabit
(sorry for the sarcasm, its early and I'm only on my first pot of coffee)
As a Left Coaster, I take some offense to that, but seeing as it's probably a reference to California, I'll let it go... ;) Now if RH decided to move up here to the Silicon Forest [Oregon], maybe Linux closer proximity to Redmond could wake up Micro~1 a bit...
-- 100% MS-Free as of 4-4-1999, 11:47:38 PST. "The lapdance is always better when the stripper is cryin'" Free Kevin,
I gotta admit I've felt like this for a while and I'm getting ready to give it a try on the new box I'm building.
It's funny that I just have this feeling that I'm limiting myself using RedHat, even though it has been a very good experience to get familiar with Linux. I'm not sure how this mindset got to me or how valid it is, but I feel the same way that Debian is for big boys and I'm past the RedHat 'phase' and ready to move on.
Ah well, guess at least I'll learn something.
>But DON'T claim that a distribution is 'for the big boys'
:-p
I didn't. All I said (I thought) was that I've gotten the impression that it is so. I've never used Debian so I know it by reputation only. I've used RedHat all along, but I have to admit that I've gotten the impression (right or wrong) that its for newbies and Debian has different advantages for more experienced users.
So I'm going to give it a try and see what its about and judge for myself which suits my particular needs better. I doubt very much that I would wipe my RH6 install since it does what I need for my primary machine, but I'm interested to try a different distro on the new AMD K6-2 box I'm building.
So sue me.
Those are all web-development and E-commerce positions, except for the "office manager" (they'll need one of those anyhow). Perhaps they're fixing to move their portal operations out West, or create yet another on-line Linux store.
http://www.salon.com/tech /log/1999/07/16/linux/index.html
this pretty much says it all:
Office Manager
San Francisco, CA
Red Hat is seeking an Office Manager to assist in setting up a new office on the West Coast (Bay area).
other jobs listed include "Editor-In-Chief", "Manager of E-Commerce", and "Manager of Marketing/Sales", plus some "Web engineer" type stuff. No development, though (yet).