[svlug] Fedora or Ubuntu for novis

[Greg Lindahl]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 04:03:21AM -0400, Luke S Crawford wrote:

> Really?  I was always under the impression that Linux/UNIX  people
> were able to charge a lot more.   At least from the informal salary survays
> (that is, talking to people I know)  windows admins are lucky to make 60%
> of what a similarly experienced Linux/UNIX admin does.    I'd be interested
> to hear what other people know about this. 

Linux/UNIX people do charge more, but they're generally better
educated and smarter than your typical Windows admin. (And apparently
rarer, I really didn't get many replies to a recent Craiglist job ad
for a Linux senior admin type...)

> I thought the problem with windows was that you needed more windows
> people to admin a given number of servers than you would need to manage
> the same number of Linux servers.

Yes, although that's partly a function of the previous paragraph, in
addition to the obnoxiousness of Windows.

-- greg