On 07/14/18 04:05, Man Hobby wrote: > What is the opinion of employers about OpenBSD?
Unfortunately you will find that despite our best efforts, a largish chunk of the world, and even more so the less hands-on technical parts of it, has not heard about OpenBSD at all. If you're lucky enough to find a potential employer with one or more people who *have* heard about any Unix other than Linux, there's a goodish chance that OpenBSD experience may be a factor in your favor. In fact I think during the several rounds of job hunting I've had since OpenBSD references started turning up on my resume they've generally helped my chances rather than otherwise. That aside, spending any significant time using and studying OpenBSD is bound to give you a better-than-otherwise understanding of how Unix systems are supposed to work. You may also (dangerously) get used to having defaults that are actually sane and come to expect that everything has a man page with content that actually matches the software and provides useful information. Which in turn may have you swearing more than you would otherwise at the imbecilities you will stumble across in other systems. Depending on a number of external factors, swearing (certainly swearing at potential employers) could be inadvisable in several thinkable contexts. > There is reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job? > > If not, why? > > If there is not reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job, why use > OpenBSD? Back when I started using OpenBSD I already had a job. Starting to use OpenBSD for various things had a measurable positive impact on my working situation and that of my colleagues. Even after I moved on from that job, I kept using OpenBSD for the stuff I need to keep running with a minimum of fuss. Whether using OpenBSD for anything will help you get a specific job you're currently eyeing is unknowable from my perch. What I do know is that using OpenBSD as my default system and lab environment has given me a better grounding in Unix knowledge than I would have had otherwise and that has come in handy when dealing with other Unix variants. Long time misc'ers will probably forgive me pointing to my 'OpenBSD and you' presentation (https://home.nuug.no/~peter/openbsd_and_you/) for some further facts and some opinions of mine on the matter. Do click the links to the references. - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
