Where to learn Linux?

[Amos Shapira]

On 14 March 2010 23:37, Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba at tkos.co.il> wrote:
> Hi Dotan,
> I hire Linux sys-admin's, Linux kernel hacks and Linux developers.
>
> The first thing that I look for in a prospective employee is a hobbyist
> interest in Linux. If a guy shows up in my office with an RFID chipped white
> rat in his pocket that he keeps track of using a Linux app that he wrote and
> loaded onto his notebook computer, then he gets a job offer. An RHCE
> certification doesn't match that.

I'm with you here. I also look for people for whom linux is not just a
"day job".

> Another dead giveaway is a prospective engineer who shows up with a laptop
> that runs his own distribution of Linux because he knows all of the standard
> distros and is not happy with any of them and tells me what is wrong with
> each of them until I finally have to tell him to shut up.

This one could be a problem, though - he'll want to reinvent every
wheel in your system instead of taking the approach I take - "there is
99.9% chance someone has already found a solution and put it up on the
web".

Otherwise, I'm with you on the gist of things.

Cheers,

--Amos