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This is an interesting question actually and it leads me to draw parallels with some IRC channels, like for example #vmware and #rhel at libera (formerly freeno
by INTPenis 4y ago
This is an interesting question actually and it leads me to draw parallels with some IRC channels, like for example #vmware and #rhel at libera (formerly freenode).
These are what I would call Enterprise environments, IBM, VMware, RHEL. And they all have one thing in common, lack of community documentation. Because in Enterprise environments you're expected to be trained.
And in the IRC channels people mostly talk about politics, or just everyday stuff. Very rarely do they nerd out about Linux or hypervisors. Because most people in there are trained engineers and neither need help, nor are willing to give help to someone.
If you go up to a crowd of enterprise people to ask a question, you better ask a good question. The old adage "there are no stupid questions" does not apply at all. Because these are trained people who have very specific knowledge of their Enterprise systems. They don't mess around with community projects or open source for fun. They do it to achieve a goal.
I know someone who started at IBM about a year ago and he's learning quickly how to program on IBM mainframes. By other senior engineers, and trainers.