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There is an extremely fine line between speaking the layperson's terminology and lying. Wrong: "Yep, I have UNIX experience!" Right: "These days, the phrases
by gargarplex 9y ago
There is an extremely fine line between speaking the layperson's terminology and lying.
Wrong: "Yep, I have UNIX experience!"
Right: "These days, the phrases 'UNIX' and 'UNIX-like systems' are used interchangeably. Please double check this with your hiring manager to confirm that we're on the same page."
- f1notformula1 9y agoAgreed there's a fine line. I somehow find myself a little further along the spectrum - Perhaps I'm jaded from dealing with too many recruiters who are trying to check boxes. If I really thought this job was worth my time, I would've updated my resume to say UNIX and Linux, and then clarified during the first interview with a technical person.
- Aeolun 9y agoWhich incidentally is why so many actually technical people are tired of all these resumes that say an applicant has a skill they don't actually have.
- foo101 9y agoWrong: "Yep, I have UNIX experience!" Right: "Yep, I have Unix experience! I have worked on Solaris which is a bonafide Unix system. I also have experience with Unix-like systems like FreeBSD and Debian GNU/Linux."
- tristor 9y agoSolaris and AIX /are/ UNIX. Solaris is derived from SunOS, which is derived from 4.2BSD, which was directly licensed by Sun from AT&T via a UNIX source license. Solaris and SunOS were both certified as UNIX. Similarly IBM licensed AT&T UNIX and derived AIX. It is still certified as UNIX. The Open Group holds the UNIX trademark and copyrights and conducts the certification and licensing process these days. See here: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/ https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/ You've posted functionally the same comment multiple times in this thread. No matter how many times you say it, you are technically incorrect. UNIX is a valid piece of terminology when referring to commercial Unix OSes.