Unix/Linux Pet Peeve
Saw this randomly today on a job posting:
“in-depth knowledge of UNIX system administration required; Sun Solaris and linux expertise strongly preferred”
Anybody see anything wrong with that? Drives me absolutely nuts. In that sentence, you would think that Linux is a type of Unix, in much the same way FreeBSD is a type of BSD, and BSD is a type of Unix. Um…no. Linux is a clone of Unix, not a fork. That would be like me saying:
“In-depth usage of MS Office programs needed. Office 2003 and OpenOffice preferred”
*shakes head*
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I used to get offended by this stuff. I used to correct people calling Linux just Linux when they were talking about the entire operating system and say, “It’s GNU/Linux, Linux is just the kernel…” Eventually I felt like I was just wasting my breath, people just got pissed.
The problem I see with the above now is Solaris and Linux are very different in important ways. To lump them together as “UNIX” in that regard is shows ignorance and it’s just silly.
Yeah. It’s one thing for someone to say something like that in casual speech. But in a job posting to prospective employees? Sheesh. Not only is it misinformed, it’s laziness too.