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Sometime in the 90s, I was at Oracle and got invited to what was probably the most boring meeting I've ever attended in my life: A bunch of systems admins who
by AlbertCory 4y ago
Sometime in the 90s, I was at Oracle and got invited to what was probably the most boring meeting I've ever attended in my life:
A bunch of systems admins who were puzzling over how to create a standard way to administer Unix systems. The premise was "in the old IBM mainframe days, every shop ran the exact same way, so it was easy to train a new hire. Now, with Unix, there are a million different customs, so how do we standardize it?"
You probably never even thought this was a problem. My big problem was staying awake. I guess now that it's all Linux, it's easier. Back then, there was HP-UX, IBM AIX, Sequent's whatever-it-was-called, Pyramid, SCO & all the other PC variants...
The group was called Moses, which makes it almost unsearchable since there are so many other uses of that word.
- meadhbh-hamrick 4y agoI mean... it's not ALL LEENUCKS. You still have to grok the difference between Darwin and Leenucks. And Minix if you work with PCHes.
- AlbertCory 4y agoIt wasn't me who downvoted this. I didn't understand some of the words, but no big deal; I could look them up (but didn't bother).
- tjr225 4y ago
- pjmlp 4y agoExcept good luck keeping up with all the differences among Linux distros, their package managers, location for configuration files outside the classical UNIX ones, with or without systemd, sandboxing model, which desktop is configured as default, sound stack,...