[SWLUG] Newbie alert!

[steve at nexusuk.org]

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Keith Edmunds wrote:

> In terms of learning Linux you could do worse than either setting up LFS 
> (Linux From Scratch) or installing Gentoo by hand. Gentoo now has a beta

Talk about being thrown in at the deep end! :)

> In brief: get the experience followed by the qualifications. For what it's 
> worth, I have no Linux (paper) qualifications at all, but I make a living 
> working solely on Linux (well, Windows to a Samba server sometimes). It can 
> be done.

Yep, I think I'd agree with this - you _may_ be able to get qualifications 
without a lot of experience first, but the chances are you'll be a lot 
more use to an employer (and yourself!) if you get the experience first. 
And I, too, have no Linux qualifications, but having used it on a daily 
basis for the past 8 years (and pretty much exclusively for the past 5) I 
am certainly employable - afterall, Intel just gave me a Linux job. :)

(Sadly Intel's policy is to run Windows on all desktops, but I have Cygwin 
and eXceed installed and work almost exclusively on Linux over X and SSH)

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