Subj : Re: Linux Daily?
To   : Dan Clough
From : Eric Renfro
Date : Sun Jul 28 2019 06:05:59

  Re: Re: Linux Daily?
  By: Dan Clough to Eric Renfro on Sat Jul 27 2019 07:14 pm

 ER>> I mean, it does mean that I will actively turn down jobs in
 ER>> situations like that. But in my case, I can afford to be picky
 ER>> and specific. I get 5~10 offers for work every week. More during
 ER>> the prime times of January and July, where lots of companies do
 ER>> their biggest hiring hunts.

 DC> Well that's cool. I'm assuming you're a programmer of some 
 DC> kind... (?)

Well, sorta. I'm a Senior Linux Systems Engineer with a looooooooong proven
background in my career. I'm not a developer, but I can program in various
languages. Python, C++, PHP, Bash/ZSH, Perl, Ruby, etc..

But, as a Linux engineer, I know what most of the sysctl things do. I can write
custom SELinux policies, and I know how they work from EL6 up. If I had to, I
could make custom SELinux policies, painfully, for other distros like Debian,
but wouldn't want to since they have absolutely no base policies to start with.

I'm a secrity expert that knows how to do what the h4xx0rs do, so I also know
how to detect them, stop them, and react to them quickly. And the right tools
for the job to help with that. ;)

That sort of thing, anyway. Highly broad, yet very good at it.

 ER>> Yepperding. All bow to Patrick Volkerding, supre.... Nope. Not
 ER>> me! LOL. But yes, it is one of the oldest. But then again, So is
 ER>> Debian, Red Hat Linux, and openSUSE still, runners up from
 ER>> Slackware at least. openSUSE was originally based on SLS and then
 ER>> rebased off Slackware.

 DC> Haha, yes, I understand that thinking. But I would also argue 
 DC> that all those other distros also basically have one Head MoFo in 
 DC> Charge kinda guy too, really not much different than Slackware in 
 DC> that regard. Especially now that the big ones have become a 
 DC> commercial endeavor, pretty much.

Sort of yes and no.

Debian, for one, has an elected "Head MoFo" that changes every once in a while,
as do a few other distros. Commercial distros has the company heads involved,
but do you think the company heads run the show? Only to a point, but look at
Fedora and CentOS. They are community driven, yet people get paid to work on
them and the community involvement.

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