IT employment (was Re: which prebuilt linux boxes seem to work best?)

[Victor Tsaran]

Geoff, you are correct. Many enterprises use Solaris, I believe, the reason
for this is because this is commercial product. If something goes wrong, you
have someone to sue. The same argument applies to the usage of NT. Not many
business, especially big ones, want to switch to Linux because they wouldn't
have anyone to blame if something goes wrong.
I tried installing Sollaris8, Intel edition, at home and yes, it is possible
to pick it up. Of course, one would have to install with sighted people
around because there is no way to do it over serial port or Speakup. Another
thing about SOllaris is there are a lot of conceptual differences between
Linux and Sollaris. For instance, the disk is alyed out differently. One of
the problems I see with Solaris is that they use a lot of graphical
configuration tools. But, hopefully, after the Gnome/Sun project was
launched, perhaps we will be able to access GNOME as well.
Solaris doesn't ship a lot of GNU tools by default, but they have a web site
where one can download precompiled binaries for their SUN system. For
instance, if you decided to install Emacspeak, you'd have a bit of trouble
finding and installing necessary componenets such as TCL, GCC and Make. I
know, T.V. Raman was working on Solaris for quite a bit of time, so it is
not impossible for a blind person.

Best,
Vic

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brent Harding" <bharding at ufw2.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: IT employment (was Re: which prebuilt linux boxes seem to work
best?)


> I never heard of anyone around here using solaris. I think most of the
isps
> I've been on before use linux, this one claims to use redhat and NT. I
> guess the web and games servers run redhat, and the authentication, mail,
> and machines associated in getting people logged on run NT, but I don't
> know jaws inside and out enough to switch from wineyes to it. It's hard to
> get a reference in the program to a hotkey without looking at the scripts,
> and especially if the program has no scripts, and is mostly custom
controls.
> At 04:44 PM 10/21/00 +1100, you wrote:
> >Hi:
> >
> >It's interesting you should say this.  I've been looking at job ads
lately
> >since I was told that I'd be more than capable of a junior unix admin
job,
> >and I've only actually seen one linux job advertised.  Most seem to use
> >solaris, hp-ux and aix.  So are there really lots of redhat jobs over
> >there?  If so, it probably indicates a greater take-up of linux there
than
> >here.  If only it were so over here.  Still, I'm told solaris isn't too
> >difficult to pick up, which is just as well seeing there's so many of
those
> >jobs being advertised.
> >
> >Geoff.
> >
> >
> >
> >--
> >Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au>
> >ICQ number 43634701
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