Hi TekSyndicate community.
As an employee of Red Hat, and a big fan boy of the company. I found this edition of the Linux Action Show to be really awesome. They got to go to the RH Tower in Raleigh and interview a few guys there.
I can say that its very true to a daily life at Red Hat and wanted to share it with this community.
OH, as much as I hate the LAS format, ill definitely give this a watch, looks interesting.
Maybe there's room in teksyndicates future for things like this for teklinux (interviews, linuxy stuff, etc).
How did you get a job at Red Hat? Did you have to obtain the RHCSA and RHCE certificates?
Sweet. May I ask? When Red Hat decided to adopt libzypp why did they make the new package manager DNF and not Zypper? Zypper is far more mature afaik and DNF is practically YUM with fewer options and libzypp. Sorry if you're not the person I should be asking.
What direction are you guys going to take to further compete with SUSE which as you know brags about zero downtime? Why is your product better?
Not for my position. I am studying RH certs now though. I work in the Service Desk so I also support Windows, Mac, IOS android google services and almost everything else that may exist at RedHat. Really Red Hat hires based on you personality over your credentials. Red Hat believes firmly that they can teach you how to do the job. They cannot teach passion and belief in the open source movement.
Hmm that is a tough question and I do not think I can answer it for fact but I can tell you what I think.
I think the choice for Dnf is just ease of transition for yum users. I mean it took me 5 mins to switch as its just replace yum with dnf. Keep in mind that Red hat supports alot of RHEL users who never touch the command line as we provide remote support and lock it down for reliability.
As for comparison to SUSE well they are both kindred spirits really. I would say you get more support behind RHEL then SUSE. Now if you decide to go the free route, then some may prefer SUSE over CENTOS or Fedora.