From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 25 23:15:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17A9137B403 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 23:15:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15x0HQ-0008rn-00; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 06:15:44 +0000 To: Cliff Sarginson , freebsd-questions From: Cliff Sarginson Subject: Re: in need of a little advice Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 06:15:44 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@btvs.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 192.250.25.251 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Learn perl. > Learn as much as you can about networking. > Knowing FreeBSD is an excellent ground for learning > the vagaries of any other Unix system (oops, sorry we are > not supposed to call FBSD a Unix system anymore .. lol). > Jobwise, the most useful ones are Sun Solaris and HP-UX. > Solaris you can get for free. HP_UX is a real SOB to > administer (I know I did it for many years), but is > widespread. Knowing Linux won't do you any harm either. > > Be warned ! I was a sys admin for a long time, it is > a high stress job, and nobody loves you .. boo-hoo. > > Be aware at job-interviews that if your background so > to speak is in FreeBSD you may get asked a lot of searching > questions about it. (You would from me if I was interviewing > you !). > > Good Luck ! Yes, I just read Ted's reply, he is quite right of course about Windows. It is as inescapable as death unfortunately. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message