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Comment Started as a new Programmer at 42 (Score 2) 314

I used to be an electrical engineer, working strictly with hardware. Then, a layoff and lousy job market forced me to make a career change. I went back to school for a grad degree in Computer Science. It was difficult for someone like me who started out without a software background but I've been working as a Software Engineer III for 1 1/2 years now. I'm now working with Java, Groovy, Spring, Hibernate, Solr...just to name a few. IT is a thriving market now and in the foreseeable future.

Comment Re:Why should they? (Score 2, Informative) 366

Linux is just a kernel. Naming the whole system after a kernel seems a bit excessive to me

Its actually GNU/Linux because desktop and laptop systems mostly use GNU software with the Linux kernel. For simplicity sake, the family of operating systems is referred to as "Linux". Most distros refer to it the same way.

Comment Re:Easy to answer. (Score 1) 366

Indeed...and most of the population fails to understand the concept of open source or how something that is freely available and isn't commercial and proprietary can be any good. Its also hard for people to understand exactly what Linux is when there are more than a half dozen desktop environments for it. Most people identify Windows 7, Windows 8 or OSX by how they look and act on the surface, not by what's under the hood.

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