As I have advanced in IT and Networking I find my IT pals think I am speaking Uranian..or Zoggian from the planet Zog.

I was a little worried about this but I am reassured by reading this blog, it is simply that the deeper you look the vaster the complexity. Rather like the deep space telescope that tracked one black area in the night skyrecently that turned to be “full of stars…” (Quoting Arthur C. Clarke)

I barely understand what Puppet does, but I have spent a week on php recently and get the idea. I can see the cost savings for multinationals. I have downloaded sucessfully Sol 10 version.

As people more advanced than I, how much more overall complexity can I expect in my studies? Lets say your telescope has a better magnification than mine-can you see an end?!

I did some basic programming in Basic in 1988, later MSVC++.

The idea of package management is conceptually straight forward but the differing installations and patch revisions frighten one!

Thanks in advance, at my age one must start to limit the focus to an area likely to return benefits.
I am unemployed at the moment!

Secondly, I am increasingly of the opinion that Linux is much inferior as it is not as well supported, although I am now taking my Solaris studies across to Linux for employment purposes.

I guess you are too busy! but a bit of general stuff can lighten the brow?

Hope everyone starts talking the same language and makes up a good service.

You don’t need me to point out the ironies of this argument, essentially about code/language/communication! And the likely remedies…

I admire your achievments and pains.

Rich K

Mike Renfro’s Blog : Making Solaris Packages from Commercial Software…