+Danny Villaroel That's awesome Danny that you love Linux. It def has many advantages. Thanks for watching the video!

I am in the same process of learning linux and I agree with you, but when I am working and I have to do a task quickly I can't be delayed as I figure my Linux laptop out. That is why I use two laptops at one time. Many times I know I can do something in linux for example RDP into a windows box on the network, I know I can do this with my laptop running Linux but It will take me time to figure it out which I might not have. I love to use my linux distro but the learning process can be lengthy at times. I am thinking about dual booting win10 and Ubuntu-mate 16.0.4 on my 64 bit laptop as my next adventure. That being said every day I get better and I see a day when Linux takes the place of my primary work PC and I no longer have to use any form of windows.

that's rubbish. Linux at home = you are root and can do everything. Linux at work = you are slave and can do only 23 commands, and good luck doing something smart with those. For the rest of your life. go imagine. If you were root at, say, microsoft, you could destroy everything by accident. So practice linux by not being root all the time. Also forget ubuntu. production linux = rhel or centos.

fedora ?@@kosterix123

Thanks for watching Mark, much appreciated! Dan did a great job.

Typically, my day involves proving that idiot developers pushed something to production w/o proper testing. I do a lot of Puppet coding, some Github, lots of RH Satellite and Linux on Z (mainframe). It's non-stop....

Watch movies on Kodi all day. Linux is set it and forget it. LOL. hard drive crashes replace it. NIC goes out replace it. Cable goes bad guess what replace it. It's repetitive commands mostly, and log gathering for vendors. Refreshing equipment is when it gets fun and busy. Other than that, finding ways to keep yourself entertained.

I need this job.

it all starts with a simple sudo...

well, everyone outside of it production environments is shouting from rooftops Automate everything. But in practice it is always de-automate everything, because at one point in time something went wrong so forever we need that thing to monitor by hand. And then something else goes wrong, and same solution from managers every time: do it by hand. I've seen this in half a dozen it environments. So, you got your fancy degree by studying day and night, just so you are eligible to do monkey work that any child would get bored by within the hour. Day in day out. Until you die. The worst part is that your colleagues are no fun, because all life has been stamped out of them and they are going through life like automatons. Perhaps that is more commonplace, but I can only observe from production IT environments. But when I visit malls I only see dead eyes gazing around me.

Thanks Bob for watching!

Thanks for watching!

Thank you for watching!

Glad you enjoyed it

+Nguyen Hai Tuan thanks for watching!

Thanks much appreciate that!

Thanks Chris for watching and also the added info!

Hi chris, is Linux+ worth it to start my career as a Linux Admin ?

Look at Linux+ as you would A+. It certifies you as having the knowledges of someone who has been on th e job for about 6 months.

i've learned A+ but didn't sat for the exam, should i take it or go for Linux+ ?

+Kavish Gour that's like tou baked an apple pie, but should I have a slice of cake? Having the A+ cert means you havr compentence with hardware. Having the Linux+ cert means you have competence with an operating system. Having both isn't mutually exclusive.

Daniel O'Nolan Thanks for the tip! I have my system dualbooted with Ubuntu and Win7 but I also use a VM (Virtual Box) and the beauty of VMs is I can play around and experiment with just about any OS out there without risking damage to the native system. So that way I can play around with RedHat and get to know it more. What about UNIX such as BSD and especially FreeBSD? is BSD also worthwhile to learn or should I just focus on Linux?

Thanks for watching Alex. Did you see the recent interview I did with Tameika? It's also on the topic of Linux but we went deep on other topics too.

I will for sure ,thank you ,,

+Lucky Oswald Hello Lucky. Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed it. Yes I will have other admins on some future interviews where we will discuss that stuff in more detail. Make sure you're subscribed and/or on my community email list so you're notified. You can sign up here: askwilliamc.com Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching!

+Stefan Siegl (SiSadness) Very cool Stefan, so glad you enjoyed it!

By the way: Not scripting interviews and hanging each question onto the last answer is the way to do it! This way it goes deep deep deep. Most Journalists have lost that quality since it requires attention and thinking. So please, man, stick to that kind of interviews!

***** Thanks Stefan. I'm definitely no journalist :) There was no scripting at all. We just did it on the fly and let it work itself out and that's how I believe it should be done. Thanks for watching.

+Jeff Herdzina thanks for watching !

Good video but why do you have xorg under gui?

I appreciate that Rashed, thanks for watching!

As long as we're talking about graphics. I can't help but think that your webcam framerate is somehow related with the fact that you're running Linux :p

Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching! Dan did a great job.

Thanks for the input!

Anytime, thanks for watching!

Thanks so much for watching and glad it helped!

+bevg1 awesome glad you enjoyed it!

+fiifi thanks for watching!

+Gaylon Whitman Thanks Gaylon! I was very appreciative for Dan's time to talk to me about this topic.

Thanks for watching Vinod!

Appreciate you watching, thank you!

+Daniel O'Nolan Exactly Dan. Experience will always trump Certs!

+David Dupoise Thanks David for your input. I see you're a Linxu fan :)

Very much. Arch, Debian, and Mint are my daily drivers.

David Dupoise I have no idea what those 3 are but that's awesome! How long have you been working with Linux?

Information Technology Q & A Show Looked into Ubuntu when it became reasonably functional as a desktop system in 2008. I personally did not care much for the Unity desktop environment so I did not adopt it. I kept it in a virtual machine however. I Adopted Linux Mint two years ago after a trial period of about 6 months and have been full bare-metal Linux ever since. I still have Windows 7 Pro that I run in a virtual machine when I need it for compatibility issues.

Information Technology Q & A Show In between 2008 and 2013 I looked into Debian, which I do like but I get the same functionality from Linux Mint. Linux Mint is Debian based. If you have any questions, I am happy to answer as best I can. If you would like any help with a virtual install and review I can help with that as well.

Very welcome and thanks for watching!

Thanks for the tips..I'm not a Linux guy so this is all new to me.

+ebonix33 I'm not sure what that question means either. Do you have more details?

Just to clarify a few things! The DE used by David is "cinnamon" (or so I judge by the looks), and the Linux distro is called "Linux Mint". There are many different preconfigured versions of Mint that come with different DE's, such as MATE or GNOME. Mint is not the only way to use Cinnamon, you can use it on Ubuntu or even Arch, and this is not the only way to make Cinnamon look or feel. The square on the very right is called "conky", and it's very customisable -- ie this is not the only way to have it look. I, unlike David as it seems, prefer a much more minimalist config, others like having their whole wallpaper covered with conky stuff. *You* get to decide how you want it to look, and there are loooots of premade conky configs on the net. +Daniel O'Nolan mentioned "window managers", which *are a part of a desktop environment*. A window manager is what handles how windows are drawn (how big the border should be, how big the window should be, what buttons should be in the bar up top, what the bar up top should say, etc), and where they are placed. A DE is just a suite of various programs, *including* a window manager. A DE will most likely come with its own calculator app, and sometimes it's own text editor. A WM does not. (I personally advice staying away from Mint, due to the maintainers not seemingly taking security seriously. For anyone interesting in a out-of-the-box distro, consider Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, or Fedora. The difference in day-to-day usage is tiny between these distros -- the biggest thing you'll notice is how to install or uninstall programs. But there are usually graphical programs to do this)

I use a light window manager (openbox) because I use chromium. *badum tss*

Looooook at all the pretty choices we have. Linux - isn't she lovely. Now if you'll excuse me I have a raspberry pi to program as a whole network ad blocker.

lmao

Thanks for watching!

+Daniel O'Nolan It's OK if you don't mention all type of GUI but a wide range of variety could be a "sellingpoint". 3 type of GUI don't make fragmentation in Linux community. BTW these amount of GUI option (I mean 20+) shouldn't make any problem. This is only customization and way of usage (like a 3rd party launcher and unique icon pack on an Android phone). I think the major issue in Linux-world is the "ditching". I mean "Joe" like A distro, "Bob" like B distro and this generate enemy situation. This type of thinking is very toxic. "Joe" and "Bob" should be more helpful with each other. BTW a Windows user and a Linux user should think about each other more friendliness way. If somebody use a car for transportation he/she shouldn't hate anybody who use rather bicycle.

+Daniel O'Nolan I'm sorry I don't want attack you or supposed anything about you. I don't mean that you hate Windows. I mean there are too many "Windows fanboy", "Linux fanboy" and "OS X fanboy" generally and they hate each other very much. This is the one of the biggest problem. I haven't any idea how do you think about Windows or OS X but generally an average Linux user (whom you can find easily on KZfaq and forums) could be a "Microsoft hater" or "Apple hater". These two company make so big "brand building" what can generate superiority thinking in their users mind (without real fund). This could start an "OS war". I see this GTK and QT4 force are unneccesary. Cinnamon and Unity are GTK based (like Gnome), right? I thought you speaking about GUI using.

+Daniel O'Nolan I disagree with your opinion about this amount of trouble when an enterpris use Linux. Because the enterprise will decide which desktop environment will use and not user or technician. (Decision makers can force any conversion of OS or DE because everybody will follow them inside enterprice. They can't do anything but leaving. Enterprise isn't equal democracy.) Why should get any user this responsibility? Most of them doesn't understand what is happening. BTW command line is the most important in supporting area because everything is possible in terminal in Linux world. The GUI is just touch the top of iceberg.

Thank you so much for those recommendations! I've had ppl ask me what to study so this will help some ppl.

no. those books are for ppl that have years of hands on experience. Read Linux cookbook, by carla, and the linux Command Line. Those are the best starting points.

Sander van vugh and linux bible two great books michael jang is filled with useless informations that doesnt get you started until later later chapters. I got all 3 and jang is garbage wasting my time.

Thanks for watching!

+Daniel O'Nolan It's what? o.O They adopted stuff like the package management system (rpm) from Red Hat, but didn't fork the whole thing. It's even older than Red Hat. Suse (S.u.S.E./Slackware based) release 3/94 Red Hat release 12 November 1994

wow, thank you! If you liked this one, you'll love the one I did with Tameika recently. Have you seen it yet?

+Daniel O'Nolan Thanks for the clarification. I will definitely make a note to acquire the book.

I don't - we didn't trade that info when this was recorded.

@@learnitfromwilliam Does Dan have a last name? lol

People get divorced for many reasons and one of them I'm sure is related to job stress, etc. I.T. is one of those jobs where some roles require extensive work weeks which really sucks. I would agree with you to some extent about programmers not having to be on call and work crazy hours. They do have more flexibility in most cases but not all.

"As a programmer you can work 9-5 easy, you are not even allowed on production systems." Is this working time for Software Engineers too?

Great Video. Can you give me what you think are a good baseline set of skills / certs for becoming a Linux Administrator?

Hello. Are you saying that I put the incorrect verbiage in the description? I'm not exactly sure I follow what you're saying.

Information Technology Q & A Show xorg server isnt gui thats what i meant and in description it says it is.. he said xfce but you misunderstood him when he later said xorg architecture he meant that gui's run on xorg server.. i just tried to help :)

So I should remove xorg and add xfce? I just want to make sure that's correct.

yes

***** Ok, I'll change it. Thks for the clarification!

why?

Thanks for watching.

Seriously: follow up on the 'systemd' development. It's worth an entire show, at least.

Hi Tameika. Can you explain what you mean?

So I have been a linux admin for 17 years. I was saying I would love to speak on this from a female's perspective to engage other women. This is amongst other topics as well.

tameika reed Ok, I kinda thought that's what you meant. So you'd like to have a recorded video chat like I did with Daniel? That would be freakin awesome! Would love to get a female perspective on the I.T. world.

Yes I would. I know odd request coming from the female side of the house

tameika reed Awesome. I'll send you a private message via YT and we'll get something going.

Hello William. It's GUI -- graphical user interface.

lol

Dude!!! Watch old episodes of Criminal Minds!!! Penelope Garcia explains Linux in small chunks over a few seasons!!! #Edutainment😆😆😎

There's nothing wrong with mastering Linux. I don't think it's going anywhere in the future. It has it's place for use in many of the worlds companies. Dan could provide more on that as well. And VmWare vs Cloud. Those two go hand in hand and not compete. Alot of cloud computing is running on the backend of VmWare (or VM in general) so you need to understand both technologies. But I will say that in the world of I.T., you have to keep up with what's going on or you'll be left behind. I spoke about this in another video about staying relevant. Thanks much for watching!

Thanks, Dan and William on your responses! I got VMware and lots of CentOS/RedHat Linux experience but I can't seem to get a job again since 2012. Out of professional work for about 4 years. Wish I could do perl/korn shell and python exclusively with Linux. Can't find that ideal job. I thought VMware made the demand for Linux Admins go obsolete since the configuration of file systems to increase storage takes place in VMWare instead of in Linux? Why study how to increase/fix Linux file systems when VMware can takeover that task? I guess "the cloud" is just some else's data center that other people hit through the internet for their desktop (dummy terminal)? Trying to figure that out. Thought I had to ditch Linux in favor of learning "the cloud" hardware/software tech that were unrelated to Linux/VMware. Now you're saying the cloud can be Linux/VMware? What am I doing wrong? I'll look over more of your videos for those answers.

Wow...on the cloud thing. I saw an online article on Dice.com not too long ago about getting experience working in the cloud. The person responding from Dice (not a random person chiming in) mentioned a website I could use to get the experience for cloud....and here all along it meant using someone else's data center. I even asked questions related to that. I feel stupid and totally buffaloed on that Cloud thing from the Dice folks like they were showing off...at my expense. I'll add that 'Cloud' thing to my resume...if that means maintaining a server website (apache), correct? I just go by the latest publications from sources such as ComputerWorld, Dice, and other sites for the skills in demand. This is the first time I've heard of Control-M. I've gone thru TEKsystems/Robert Half too in the past and actually right now...with both for different jobs. I submit my resume and they change it before submitting it. Thanks!

Daniel O'Nolan Great conversation here, thanks for stepping in Dan! I agree, the cloud thing is getting crazy.

Thanks again guys, for your help. I'm going to put the word 'Cloud' next to apache in my resume. Maybe that will help get past some automated HR thing to be considered for a job. That being said, I'm going to ... 1) go back to getting good at CentOS (RedHat) again. The word 'service' was replaced by 'systemctl' as far as services being kicked off are concerned. Hopefully nothing drastic has changed in CentOS 7/RedHat. 2) going to review TCP, network stuff since that stuff was alway handled by another department when I was working. 3) Plan look into Linux plus, A+, Network+ etc. Already have Security+ certification. I wasted a lot of time putting Linux on the shelf because I thought administrators were going to be thinned out from Cloud data centers/VMware takeovers which doesn't appear to be the case from what I'm hearing. Totally happy to hear your advice. Totally bummed out I shelved Linux under erroneous information in search of another career. You guys are the best.

Not sure what you mean Ramesh.

i mean questions which you asked in not worth for an experienced candidates. most you asked not technical. Anyhow thank you very much for your videos

ramesh reddy That's correct, it wasn't really meant to be a technical conversation. It was more just information about linux and the life of a linux admin. Thank you for watching though.

It wasn't the best video/audio, but the content was still pretty solid. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks for watching.

who?

+Information Technology Q & A Show (William C) The one with the glasses, I've seen him on Linux seminars etc

+Daniel O'Nolan Oh, never mind then. Sorry for the confusion

+Gay Fawkes by the way. Thanks for watching! Dan and I appreciate it.

+Information Technology Q & A Show (William C) It was a good Q&A 😊

+Tonya Brown Tonya, the same way you get good at anything. Practice!

Love linux it's the future ✨

+Larry Sunshine Hey Larry, I noticed you edited the comment and removed the "fuck sake" verbiage. I was on a roll because everyone who has commented on this video so far has loved it until your comment. No worries thought... I can't please everyone. I told Dan that my knowledge was very minimal and I think I even said it at the beginning of the video. And your focus shouldn't be on my knowledge of the product but on the person I'm asking the questions to. Anyway, thanks for stopping by.

Sometimes I have a short temper :D

Seems like you're a big Linux fan. I wouldn't say Windows is crap but it definitely has its moments. Thanks for watching.

I support a huge global windows infrastructure as a day job.

Hello Omar. It's one of the most viewed videos on this channel and most ppl really liked it. Sorry that you felt like it was not up to your standards but I thought Dan was very knowledgeable. I do have another interview with a linux admin if you haven't already seen it.

Information Technology Q & A, Thanks man. I'll check out your other interview. Once again, thanks for all you do!

here's the direct link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/edJ5i5Cdx7OpiIU.html