On 0, Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just thought of something while setting up port forwarding on my > server.... > First I searched google on how to do something like that and came > across a howto. I figured thats great and tried to work through it > but it was pretty technical and I didn't really have a clue what I > was doing. Then I figured there must be some magic debian script > that will set it up for me and sure enough, ipmasq does exactly what > I want, no knowledge required. > > This is all great and thats the main reason I use debian but am I > actually learning anything? I've been running debian on my desktop > and server for over a year now and know how to configure it quite > well but I still dont really feel I know linux. There are so many > debian tools that automagically take care of system administration > that I think I would be lost without them. While I wouldnt want to > give all this up I also wouldn't want to find that what I know about > linux is totally useless for any distro other than debian. > > I really dont have much experience with other linux distros so maybe > its not that different but it feels like I'm in a pretty > debian-specific world. > > What do you think, could I get away with putting Linux on my resume or > is my debian experience too limited?
Come on, surely this is some sort of 'troll in reverse'? This list has been flamed plenty of times complaining that debian is too hard, too low level, too unfriendly, but I've *never* seen someone complain that its too easy... My feeling is that if you know debian then you'll figure out other distros pretty quickly (and probably figure out how much you want your debian back, but that's another story). Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Classifications of inanimate objects: Those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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