Re: [orca-list] talking gdm with orca in fedora

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Alex,

Yeah, I don't know where they got their data. Its true in the
desktop/PC market Ubuntu is one of the leading distributions for home
users. However, for large scale networks, enterprise solutions, I
believe Red Hat Enterprise is definitely the recognized leader. On
almost every server I've encountered or happen to use in the last five
years or so are almost exclusively Red Hat Enterprise. In fact, the
server I use for my website etc is running REL on it although since I
am not the administrator of that system my use is strictly as a user
via ssh connection rather than as an admin.

However, like you said if you look on monster.com or some place for
jobs most of the time they want someone with experience on REL. I just
looked into a job a year back which was for AOL. They wanted someone
with experience with Red Hat Enterprise, Java programming, and
experience with MySQL databases. I certainly was qualified for the
Java and MySQL part of the application, but as for Red Hat Enterprise
I don't know that much about it. Especially, the degree of
accessibility it does or does not currently have for VI Linux users.
My guess is its probably pretty low on their list of priorities.

Cheers!


On 6/14/12, Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com> wrote:
> Yep, we sure did.  Ubuntu was tagged as having overtaken Rhel by some
> Linux interest group or other that did a survey.  I think I posted it
> just to the Vinux list.  I'm not using any metrics.  All I did was do an
> experimental job search for who was hiring and for what for linux-based
> jobs.  It seemed like every other posting was for someone who knew their
> way around Rhel.  The only Ubuntu related jobs I found were on LInked In
> and looked like sales positions with Cannonical itself and not sys
> admin, developer or network admin type positions like what you see for
> Red Hat.  Makes me wonder where that company got its data that Ubuntu is
> more popular than Rhel.  It was kind of depressing actually since I
> don't know a single blind person who uses Rhel as their distro of choice
> either at home or at work.
>
> I think I'll just keep doing what I've been doing for now with servers.
> Debian also seems pretty popular for servers and there's a bonus in that
> you can actually install the thing without sighted assistance.  I'm
> pretty much still learning the basics anyway.  I certainly havent'
> gotten as far as to tinker with cloud-based solutions yet.
>
> Alex M