An Open Letter To The Linux Enthusiasts. 4174

I severely blame the schools, because the schools are there to teach the background theory, so that students can learn the technology easily.

Too many of them don't teach any of the background theory, and unfortunately without showing a large variety of different operating systems and computer architectures, it's impossible to explain why any one system does any particular thing... every system consists of compromises and if the student does not understand the alternatives they cannot understand why those compromises are made.

I have seen actual accredited universities which require an MCSE as part of the CS department graduation requirements and I think that is kind of shameful. If the CS standards are any good, the student should be able to learn all he needs to pbutt the MCSE in short order, and if they aren't any good, the student can pretty much pbutt the MCSE test by simple memorization.

I think by the time anyone graduates with a CS degree they should be exposed to at least half a dozen different operating systems, including at least one realtime system and at least one system designed for batch processing. But what do I know? I don't make the ACM curriculum requirements. --scott

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