> Which operating systems does you Hadoop systems run on top of? We use RedHat, although we make a fair amount of custom RPMs. It's just too much having to deal with Gentoo while maintaining high performance filesystems and schedulers, which are apparently a real pain.
> Whilst research, I ran across a FAT PAYCHECK at a startup for Hadoop expertise (California) : "Extremely competitive pay: 150-175K base salary, large bonus plan, and a generous equity stake" Lolz, a few of the full time staff regularly get headhunted for similar positions. I'm still a student and would like to finish the degree, though, so no high paying jobs for me yet. Alec
