What's so good about solaris?

[lobster]

Um the last three years (after a masters from Imperial) teaching myself all that I know in my spare time.

Installations:-
=Blag(based on Fedora Core), Fedora, Centos, Debian, Ubuntu
=making my own distro
=live distros
=installting from usbkeys, local and remote

networking:-
=ssh, ftp, lftp to administer my distros server

scripting:-
=every thing in bash,python or ruby

virtualisation:-
=linux-vserver for web hostsing and remote shells
=xen to run 15 different Linux-based distros onto my laptop simultaneously (distros as listed above)

Support and documentation
=support for new blag users via forums, irc and asterisk server
=documentation (loads) writen for the blag wiki

devel:-
pm me for the details... confidential work stuff. Prototype writen in bash and ruby

getting a masters at imperial should put you in a good position , what subject was it in?
i would learn a litle about the BSDs which can easily be written down as several years experience, its basically differnt ways of doing the same things, especially the ports and packageing systems...
You forgot to mention perl in the scripting section , sed, awk and the other tools which of course is part of bash scripting but adds more info. In the networking you could mention samba as Interoperability is a good thing....

you ran 15 different linux distros simultaneously ?? it must of been slow ???

good luck, you have experience ...

 

[Iam]

You can often find older sparc hardware on ebay, something like a U60 or even a U5 will let you run pukka Solaris 10 on original hardware. Sun give out free personal licences for Solaris too, so you'd be fully legit. I have an old dual 450Mhz SPARC U60 with gentoo and Solaris 10 installed. The only problem is I can't run it at the moment as its heat output turns my flat into an oven

Real geeks own Ultra 60s.

 

[jayeola]

getting a masters at imperial should put you in a good position , what subject was it in?
i would learn a litle about the BSDs which can easily be written down as several years experience, its basically differnt ways of doing the same things, especially the ports and packageing systems...
You forgot to mention perl in the scripting section , sed, awk and the other tools which of course is part of bash scripting but adds more info. In the networking you could mention samba as Interoperability is a good thing....

you ran 15 different linux distros simultaneously ?? it must of been slow ???

good luck, you have experience ...

MSc was in hydrology and that's how i got into programming [MATLAB]. Completely forgot about sed, mawk,gawk, and the whole awk family. yah, I'll look into bsd definately.

Regarding the *xen* domU's it all went rather fine. gave them 32Mb of ram and 128Mb swap each to do thier own thing. didn't have an effect of the main box at all. Mind you It would hurt if any of them ran data intensive services.

 

[lobster]

MSc was in hydrology and that's how i got into programming [MATLAB]

Thats cool, i love hearing how somebody gets in to programming without the usual computer science route.

 

[jayeola]

ah, but now it's time to get into it properly. Instead of saying, "right - it's 12am, time to get down to some real work", I'd like to say "shit - better get to bed, need some sleep cos I'm gonna be doing some real work and I'd like to be fresh and ting". Can't be living on a few hours of sleep here and there any more. Not good for me.