Linux Newbie or Veteran
 

How can you tell if you are a Linux Newbie or Veteran

How is this measured. Searching for Linux jobs whats the best way to measure competence in the Linux field.

you can tell if you know what you're doing... :confused:

The same way you tell if you're new or experienced in ANY field. That is, by knowing what you're doing, and having actually DONE it. How your competence is measured, will be by how you do the job. You can have 100 'certifications', and still be a newbie/incompetent.

I can definitely tell I'm a newbie.

How can you tell?

Easy. By my lack of knowledge. I'm about one-and-a-half rungs further up the Ladder Of Linux Knowhow from an absolute beginner.

What is the use of this post? Is there anything that you want gain from it?

I'm sorry that this post has offended you. I'm just getting a general understanding of how Linux users rate their Linux skills.

I am not offended but this does not seem too useful to be here in Linux Technical Forum. You may want to ask a moderator to move it to /General. As this is not directly related to Linux technical issue.

They tend to ask some questions. In that small amount of time you make it or break it. That really isn't also true. They look at your past work history. If you have been a senior tech and have been paid a lot of money, you know how much you are worth. A newbie has little background, limited time on job, almost no training, no track record of fixed when no one else could. When they call you in cause they need it working, you will know where you stand.

You'd have to be a HELL of a person to be able to answer the questions posed on LQ each day. I don't know most of them off the top of my head but 90% could be fixed if the issue was in front of me. It might take me a very long time on a few of them. To be good you don't have to memorize everything. You only have to know ideas, general ways things work and an ability to find answers.

I will say that a veteran can find answers because they understand the question. (a Veteran is a military word)

I don't get the point, why you want to rate your skills. No forum or blog can tell you are a newbie or guru. It completely depends on the amount of knowledge you have and the willingness to learn more. There is no end to education and skills as I had once studied in my school "Success is a path and not destiny" so why you want to measure the success rate just flow with the flow :)

As per my knowledge and understanding towards Linux until and unless you know how to read logs you would never be able o troubleshoot the problems. It is all about the amount of mistakes we do which will be counted as experience in future.

Well since I have to google basically everything so far. I'm considering myself a newbie. That's easy.

Besides. You should have a pretty good idea what you are capable of. Rate that knowledge against what a job asks of you and you can answer the question yourself :)

Firstly you need to know that Linux veteran is a broad term. IMO, you
need to choose what *exactly* your expertise field is going to be in
the Linux environment.

Being a Linux Veteran may mean that you are a veteran:

• Device driver writer for Linux -
• Linux System administrator -
• Linux Networking administrator-
• Database administrator on Linux -
• Front end developer for Linux -
• OR [ahem] you are a veteran when it comes to making Linux hard real time.

Firstly IMO you need to choose your area from the above list.
Simply searching "Linux jobs" won't get you anything meaningful,
I think.

P.S.
I haven't met anyone yet who is a veteran in all areas above listed.