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Burnsy2023

Burnsy2023

Burnsy2023

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So it looks like this forum is very centred on the consumer side of linux but are there any other people who work with Linux in their day job? What sort of technologies do you use?

I'm working with RHEL and OEL mainly as well as a variety of middleware on linux such as weblogic, fusion middleware, TomEE etc.
 
Not an admin but I work with embedded linux systems, anything from fiddling around in u-boot to user space apps, although prefer the u-boot/kernel level :)
 
I work with RHEL, Oracle Linux and Gentoo. As the only Sys Admin I work with quite a broad range of technologies. Gentoo is run on our main servers, RHEL for the FTP server and Oracle Linux for weblogic and atg (I dont really work with this much).
 
I worked as a Linux/Unix Admin for a large multinational IT company for over ten years. Last few years though I work more in their Unix Design area defining standard builds, security hardening standards and playing with bits and pieces (currently fun with RHEL 7 Beta AD authentication!).

On the Linux side we mostly use RHEL (with a little SLES, mostly on mainframes) and a tiny bit of CentOS here and there on management servers.
 
I work as a linux sysadmin for a large web design firm, fairly standard set of tools we use, nginx,postgres,mysql,CentOS, plenty of bash/python/lua scripting. the developers insist on using mongo for everything they can get away with.
 
I work as a sys admin at a Web firm too.

We host on AWS and Rackspace clouds so use a lot of things like load balancing auto scaling and elasticache for availability and resiliency. Ubuntu server 12.04 LTS is used pretty much exclusively.

We tend to use postgres, nginx, memcache, although the freeware stuff we run tends to be mysql, php based with either apache or more recently nginx again with php-fpm and there's a smattering of node.js with either redis or mongodb.
 
Slightly different to the posters so far but I use Linux on the desktop for both my jobs.

1) PHP/MySQL/Web Developer. All I need is a good IDE (Zend Studio) and mysql client and I'm set. It's easier on Linux: git is easier to set up, installing php/mysql and keeping them up to date is simpler and our web servers all run on CentOS so it avoids the few (very minor I'll admit) issues which can occur when moving php scripts between a Windows development environment and a Linux server. For testing sites in Internet Explorer I just use a Virtual Machine

2) University Lecturer teaching very basic Java programming. For this all I need is an office suite and an IDE. LibreOffice does everything I need and Eclipse is the IDE all the students use on the Windows PCs at university which also works flawlessly on Linux.

I'm currently running Linux Mint 16 KDE because it 'just works' and I want the OS to be something that I don't even notice rather than have to constantly fight against as some distros seem to be.
 
Similar to Burnsy actually - currently contracting as a Unix engineer, using a mix of RHEL, OEL, and Solaris. Supporting apps like ATG Commerce, Websphere Commerce, Endeca, Oracle db, Fusion middleware, MQ, Apache, and a ton of custom stuff.

Used to work for Sun (in London) as a field service engineer, then progressed my way through various admin/coding jobs, spending too many hours writing in KSH/BASH, Perl (my current choice), TCL/Expect, Ruby, C++, and others.

Current employers (although contracing I have bneen here in 3 permanent roles prior to this, unix engineer, unix lead, and infrastructure pm) are a worldwide electronics distributor with around a billion pound turnover. Ecommerce has been the main driver in the 6/7yrs I've been here.
 
I'm not a Linux admin but I do work with Linux a lot. Over the years at various companies I've seen a gradual migration from AIX Unix and Solaris towards RHEL. Most of the middleware stack is moving towards Tomcat and JBoss for Java servlet containers and application servers with occasional Weblogic (not much now).
 
Sysadmin at an ESP looking after RHEL/Centos, MySQL, and PowerMTA. Recently got my RHCSA and looking to get my RHCE this year.

Pretty much started my career all over again after working with predominately windows for 6 years.
 
We use a mix of Ubuntu, CentOS, Solaris and a little bit of Windows. I'm not really a full sandal and beard sysadmin, more of an app guy really. Our estate is migrating away from vmware and into the cloud bit by bit.
 
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