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How many people here work as Linux Admins/Engineers?

Gheris

Gheris

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Just wanted to get a feel for the popularity of Linux in the workplace. Over the last 10 years I have done so many different things, all Windows based work, and might actually try to specialize in something. Was looking at Linux as an option as I am always excited by something new. I have installed and played around in Linux, took a Unix course in college but that was years ago. Let me know guys, and thanks in advance!
 
I work for a local voice and data contract/managed service company so sadly most of our clients use Windows. I've got a lot of freedom so my main work machine is Linux although the majority of my work is done via RDP to various Windows boxes. Once nice thing is that Cisco is making a big push for Linux on their devices.
 
Nothinman said:
I work for a local voice and data contract/managed service company so sadly most of our clients use Windows. I've got a lot of freedom so my main work machine is Linux although the majority of my work is done via RDP to various Windows boxes. Once nice thing is that Cisco is making a big push for Linux on their devices.
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For the Cisco IOS?
 
I'm a UNIX/SAN Engineer and I've worked in a number of different fields. Linux has gained a lot of popularity in just the last 5 years alone, especially as a replacement for other UNIX-like operating systems.
 
when i was first hired I was in a rotational position, one of those rotations was in our unix group where i worked for about 6 months. After that i was moved into a DBA position where I am currently.
 
far far less linux jobs than microsoft jobs. everything costs (and pays) well for microsoft - when everything's free or near-free - it dilutes your value.

I think it's important to know unix and windows - honestly *bsd is a better choice for security related projects that are in the war zone - (qmail,pf,etc) - linux is a pita to patch manage - as much as windows.
 
Emulex said:
far far less linux jobs than microsoft jobs. everything costs (and pays) well for microsoft - when everything's free or near-free - it dilutes your value.
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Not at all my experience in the slightest, except for the fact that there are indeed more Microsoft jobs.

Just because software is free doesn't mean it's free to set it up and configure it properly nor does that have any dilution effect whatsoever.
 
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Emulex said:
far far less linux jobs than microsoft jobs. everything costs (and pays) well for microsoft - when everything's free or near-free - it dilutes your value.

I think it's important to know unix and windows - honestly *bsd is a better choice for security related projects that are in the war zone - (qmail,pf,etc) - linux is a pita to patch manage - as much as windows.
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The bold is complete nonsense and borders on Microsoft propoganda.

There are less linux jobs, but there's a lot less qualified linux admins/engineers. Windows admins are a dime a dozen. If you're good with linux there's plenty of jobs out there.

Linux is definitely easier to patch and manage than Windows. Actually, it's pretty damn easy to patch and manage linux if you know what you're doing, not sure where you got that from.

To answer the OPs question I've been a linux SA/Engineer for the past several years, I started off with Windows about 5 years ago then moved over to Linux. Best decision I ever made.
 
Platypus said:
Not at all my experience in the slightest, except for the fact that there are indeed more Microsoft jobs.

Just because software is free doesn't mean it's free to set it up and configure it properly nor does that have any dilution effect whatsoever.
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:thumbsup:
 
I'm a HPC Admin/Developer for a major fortune 10 company. Our clusters are 100% Linux, running a mix of RHEL 4.8 and 5.4 with LSF for batch management.
 
I work for a major website. I am fairly new currently on week 9 of employment. I am really enjoying this job even the workstations are linux.

Two years prior I was working in a windows enviroment. I always had an interest in linux kept educating myself on it and now I have a great admin job.
 
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JD50 said:
The bold is complete nonsense and borders on Microsoft propoganda.

There are less linux jobs, but there's a lot less qualified linux admins/engineers. Windows admins are a dime a dozen. If you're good with linux there's plenty of jobs out there.

Linux is definitely easier to patch and manage than Windows. Actually, it's pretty damn easy to patch and manage linux if you know what you're doing, not sure where you got that from.
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Exactly, if you think Linux is more difficult to patch than Windows then you're doing it very wrong.
 
saying stuff like patching and managing windows or linux is extremely broad.

you could be talking about anything.

BTW, everything is 'easy' if you know how to do it.
 
We used to run two different domains: Solaris 8/NIS and Solaris 10/LDAP. Was pretty fun, actually, running both of those domains. Nine times out of ten they were up and running without a hiccup. But, the powers that be decided that the Solaris 8 domian would be replaced with Windows machines while the app servers remained Unix (and remove Unix central authentication in the process). Now the same is happening to our Solaris 10 domain, leaving me a SAN/Windows admin trying to finangle a bunch of users between two domains on Windows machines running remote Unix sessions with local Unix accounts accessing files on a NAS which has no central Unix authentication but still needs to be locked down without using local accounts for each user on the NAS. Fun times.
 
kamikazekyle said:
We used to run two different domains: Solaris 8/NIS and Solaris 10/LDAP. Was pretty fun, actually, running both of those domains. Nine times out of ten they were up and running without a hiccup. But, the powers that be decided that the Solaris 8 domian would be replaced with Windows machines while the app servers remained Unix (and remove Unix central authentication in the process). Now the same is happening to our Solaris 10 domain, leaving me a SAN/Windows admin trying to finangle a bunch of users between two domains on Windows machines running remote Unix sessions with local Unix accounts accessing files on a NAS which has no central Unix authentication but still needs to be locked down without using local accounts for each user on the NAS. Fun times.
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Why can't you have the Solaris machines join the Windows domain via kerberos and LDAP?
 
kamikaze kyle said:
We used to run two different domains: Solaris 8/NIS and Solaris 10/LDAP. Was pretty fun, actually, running both of those domains. Nine times out of ten they were up and running without a hiccup. But, the powers that be decided that the Solaris 8 domian would be replaced with Windows machines while the app servers remained Unix (and remove Unix central authentication in the process). Now the same is happening to our Solaris 10 domain, leaving me a SAN/Windows admin trying to finangle a bunch of users between two domains on Windows machines running remote Unix sessions with local Unix accounts accessing files on a NAS which has no central Unix authentication but still needs to be locked down without using local accounts for each user on the NAS. Fun times.
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Hmm.. just curious.

Your setup doesn't involve Sun Rays, does it?
 
I'm an admin for a research lab that uses linux for its analysis environment. The company developing the software is moving their new version to Win7 x64, though, so that may end. I don't really care either way. I'll still run linux (at least in a VM) on my workstation since I do have use of certain tools. Our storage servers will continue to run linux (SLES and CentOS) as well.
 
JD50 said:
There are less linux jobs, but there's a lot less qualified linux admins/engineers. Windows admins are a dime a dozen. If you're good with linux there's plenty of jobs out there.
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Additionally, your current employer often doesn't want to lose you if you're the "linux guy" in a primarily Windows environment.
 
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