I love the old Mac Pros and even built a trashcan setup for Debian a few years ago. But TBH, they use a lot of electricity for the processing power they provide. If you already have one or can get one for free, great, use it. Linux runs great. But I wouldn't go to OWC and buy something that would be outperformed by a fanless, low TDP machine these days.
SeikoAlpinist
joined 10 months ago
Yes. At one employer, we had an entire domain in our AD forest that was Red Hat / CentOS / Ubuntu workstations for the developers.
At the bottom in the
Education, Professional Development, & Credentials
section
Something like: Open Source Computer Science Coursework Completed XX hours of coursework through ABCD, EFGH, HIJK Universities Relevant Coursework: Linear Algebra (Princeton); Machine Learning (Stanford); Cryptography (Stanford)
It would weigh less than my traditional degrees, but if pressed on it (unlikely), I would describe exactly what this is: an effort to liberate CS education in the spirit of the Free Software movement, using synchronous and asynchronous learning methodology in an online learning platform from accredited, reputable universities.
At this point in my career, it would show continued aptitude for growth and professional development, since it's been close to two decades since my first degree.
Also, at this point, I've seen people put shit like Strayer U and ITT Tech and Liberty on their resume and get hired for very high paying jobs. Honestly I would take this over that trash.
Even 15 years ago, most lower level undergrad coursework was 150+ students in a lecture hall where the professor would pull up Blackboard and just load the slideshow. It was only at the 300+ level where class size shrunk down and interpersonal relationships sort of mattered.
My wife's graduate degree a few years later but still over a decade ago was almost entirely online; they only met in person to discuss their progress towards the capstone. And she has a nice prestigious degree with a very expensive university name on it, walked across the stage at that University, and nowhere does that diploma read, "Online."
I have a lot of beef with the US university system. Change has to start somewhere.
How did I miss this five years ago? What an excellent idea. I think we should be able to just finish the coursework and then put it on our resume.
I love this idea so much. I'm established in my industry but I think I'll start working on it and just add to my resume. Thanks for sharing.
Depending on the country, if they don't give special preference to speedtest.net, they might just block it.
10.4 down / 3.13 up
Surprising that ThinkPads are only going to captive screws when Elitebooks had them 15 years ago.
Every Linux user should try Slackware at some point.
If they are competent with computers, they can probably figure out Ubuntu and maintain it theirself.
I left Ubuntu for systems I manage because I'm not smart enough or willing to invest time learning snaps, and snaps kept breaking Firefox updates and generally made Firefox unusable. Since I've been around a while, I found it was just easier to migrate my fleet to Debian and set it to look like Ubuntu with the dock on the left. This has been fine since 2022.
If it's something you would be partially managing, and they didn't like Mint, have them try Pop!_OS.
If it's a super simple, low maintenance desktop, just go Fedora Silverblue and it will stay solid and up to date until the hardware dies.
NFS and Minetest (Asuna) server.
Libre hardware:
- Turris Omnia router with their OpenWrt-based distro. Bought in 2017, upgraded to Wifi-6 in 2022. Great product.
- 3x system76 laptops with Coreboot and Debían
- The desktop is a system76 darter pro with a broken hinge, so it's connected to a widescreen monitor and external mouse, keyboard. Also Debían.
The non FOSS systems are:
- HP Dev One running proprietary UEFI, and Pop!_OS
- a couple of Pixel phones running stock OS
- an iPad Pro with keyboard from 2018
- X201 Thinkpad with AFFS upgrade running Debían. Connected to some AudioEngine speakers and Spotify, this is our media player.
- a Thinkpad T43p with XP for Age of Empires and Freecell
- an Apple TV.
After 26 years of using Linux, I did my first baremetal "immutable" distro install last week.
My youngest son is starting school and instead of the Chromebooks that they recommend, I took a chance and installed Fedora Silverblue on a $200 Lenovo "student-rugged" class laptop. Everything works and he hasn't had any issues so far. He gets access to the same student platform as the other students through Chrome, but then I can install Minetest and Tux Paint and GCompris as well.
The older kids run Debian stable for years now, but if this works out, I might transition them over next semester.