[Ubuntu Oregon] public perceptions of Ubuntu for servers

Ronald Chmara ronabop at gmail.com
Sat Sep 22 11:06:14 UTC 2012


On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Nathan Williams
<nathan at nathanewilliams.com> wrote:
> I just had a job interview, and was surprised by some of the perceptions a
> group of sysadmins had about Ubuntu.  (e.g. "You don't use a GUI to manage
> servers, right?")
>
> Has anyone else run into this? similar weird perceptions?

With GUI tools, a lot of people fall into 3 groups:
1. Needs GUI, can't add a user without it.
2. Uses GUI, goes into command line if needed.
3. Uses the same commands that have worked for the last 40 years.

-Bop



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