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Dear Mastodon,
I am a mechanical engineer who is about to make a major #career change. I have received a job offer from an international company for an Application Engineer position. The role involves supporting #CAD (computer-aided design), #PLM (product lifecycle management), and #PDM (product data management) systems and their underlying infrastructure.
As far as I know, most of the applications are #Windows-based, but there are likely some #Unix-like systems involved as well. I do not have formal system administration experience, so I am looking for guidance on which technologies I should focus on to make this transition as smooth as possible. Could you recommend useful books, technologies, or keywords to explore?
For context, I have homelab-level experience with Linux, networking, SSL, reverse proxying, ZFS, Solaris zones, bhyve, and FreeBSD, and I have been using OpenBSD as my desktop operating system for years.
Thank you in advance for any #advice or recommendations.
TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Implementation, configuration, and maintenance of software and systems related to the supported area in line with corporate requirements.
- Installation, configuration, and maintenance of critical software systems, as well as providing expert-level support to end users.
- Management of application-related changes, handling major upgrades, and the introduction and testing of new systems and developments.
- Publishing and testing new releases.
- System administration and monitoring to ensure the performance and proper operation of supported software and systems.
- Troubleshooting and problem resolution, including the management of system updates and fixes.
- Analysis of business requirements and implementation of related processes.
- Support for project management, including the preparation of documentation and reports.
- Communication with clients and business units to maintain synergy between business requirements and system solutions.
Since Digg is back and now in public beta, I took the liberty of creating /unix since surprisingly no one else did. Feel free to join! https://digg.com/unix
#UNIX
Rob Whittaker
and 2 others
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```/bin/bash``` just turned 38.
Happy birthday, bash!
To display bash shell version press `Ctrl+x Ctrl+v`
Michael Dexter
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In the tradition of John Lions' Commentary on 6th Edition Unix (and also the xv6 educational OS from MIT), there's now a commentary on the recently recovered V4 Unix system written by Briam Rodriguez:
https://github.com/unix-v4-commentary/unix-v4-source-commentary
Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉
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Wow, this is one of the most amazing things I've seen come out of the #UNIX v4 tape yet: Briam Rodriguez has written an entire book of commentary on the v4 source:
https://github.com/unix-v4-commentary/unix-v4-source-commentary
Wow, this is one of the most amazing things I've seen come out of the #UNIX v4 tape yet: Briam Rodriguez has written an entire book of commentary on the v4 source:
https://github.com/unix-v4-commentary/unix-v4-source-commentary
In the tradition of John Lions' Commentary on 6th Edition Unix (and also the xv6 educational OS from MIT), there's now a commentary on the recently recovered V4 Unix system written by Briam Rodriguez:
https://github.com/unix-v4-commentary/unix-v4-source-commentary
Ricardo
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I've released version 2.2.0 of Exosphere, my patch reporting program for remote UNIX systems.
It contains support for SSH connection pipelining, with associated tools to manage their state, as well as an exhaustive polish pass.
Multiple internal systems have been refactored to be much cleaner and easier to maintain.
https://github.com/mrdaemon/exosphere/releases/tag/v2.2.0
#exosphere #linux #unix #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #HomeLab #SRE #Python
I've released version 2.2.0 of Exosphere, my patch reporting program for remote UNIX systems.
It contains support for SSH connection pipelining, with associated tools to manage their state, as well as an exhaustive polish pass.
Multiple internal systems have been refactored to be much cleaner and easier to maintain.
https://github.com/mrdaemon/exosphere/releases/tag/v2.2.0
#exosphere #linux #unix #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #HomeLab #SRE #Python
vruz
and 1 other
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"...and uh, the most advanced operating system."
“It’s called UNIX."
Stanley Kubrick definitely would have been a Plan 9 user.
```/bin/bash``` just turned 38.
Happy birthday, bash!
To display bash shell version press `Ctrl+x Ctrl+v`
jbz
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Before midnight you'll be visited by 3 ghosts
Michael Dexter
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Came across Tara's series blogs of her Hermit project, where she built a minimal #FreeBSD -base system for her writing. A good reading for bed time.
https://www.tara.sh/posts/2024/2024-04-18_hermit_summary/
#BSD #RunBSD #FOSS #Unix #minimalism
Quixoticgeek
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Amazing lost media news!
52-year-old 9-track tape found with Unix V4, the operating system that everything else came from. Only 20 copies ever existed. University of Utah found theirs in a storage closet, knew what they'd found, and got the help of the California Computer Museum to reconstruct the delicate data.
I really enjoyed reading this article, which treats its readers as capable of understanding, and explains some of the technical background and challenges. Kudos to the author Courtney Tanner for conveying the excitement of this find to the audience.
Original:
https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2026/01/07/university-utah-finds-tape-with/
Archive:
(I realize the irony of having to link the archive article. SL Trib promises they'll remove their paywalls soon!)
#RetroComputing #LostMedia #ComputerHistory #technology #unix