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Subject: Re: Is it fair?
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From: Matt Curtin <cmcurtin@interhack.net>
Date: 15 Jun 1999 12:35:44 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Mark L. Holloway"'s message of "Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:56:29 -800"
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>>>>> On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:56:29 -800,
    "Mark L. Holloway" <mholloway@flashmail.com> said:

Mark> Is it fair to say that even though FreeBSD makes up a small
Mark> portion of the overall Unix market, it is still going to look
Mark> good on a resume to have FreeBSD experience if your targeting a
Mark> job in the "Internet" community?

Definitely, but to what degree depends on what other OSes you have
listed.
 o Listing FreeBSD by name identifies that you have experience in the
   BSD community.
 o FreeBSD is something that people are beginning to recognize,
   largely because of its ability to run busy sites like Walnut Creek
   CD-ROM, Yahoo!, and friends.
 o If your other OSes are NetBSD and OpenBSD, the benefit of
   mentioning FreeBSD by name is probably less significant than if
   your other OSes listed are Solaris and H-pukes.

While I do not mention every OS I know by name on a resumé, I do try
to show breadth by giving examples of each major area.

But you correctly suspect that BSD is going to be more significant
than HPUX or AIX (that's "aches" :-) when dealing with the Internet.

-- 
Matt Curtin cmcurtin@interhack.net http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/


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