[PLUG] running a mixed Debian system

[Aaron Burt]

On 31 Oct 2003, Michael C. Robinson wrote:
> I took the course with the understanding it would be geared for Linux
> systems ending up unsupported and criticized.

Whoops, you understood wrong.  Move on.  That's one instructor, one class
and one screwup you're talking about.  Don't worry, you'll have the
opportunity to experience many, many more of those.

> Leaves me wondering where to finish my CS degree or if this degree isn't
> helpful for an aspiring Linux network security/systems specialist.

Finish it at PSU, while working for the CAT.  You volunteer your time,
they teach you to be an admin and give you work experience.  Degree plus
appropriate experience equals decent job.  Degree plus nothing equals
diddly-squat.

And don't focus on Linux to the exclusion of other stuff.  Any dope can
learn to admin a homogenous, unchanging system.  Mixed environments and
integration are where the action's at.


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 As an MCSE, I have to ask: Are there pictures? Are there ducks in the
 pictures? Will we be tested on how many ducks there are in the pictures?
 How many chances do we have to guess the correct number of ducks in the
 pictures? Can I go nap now?  -- burgburgburg