Red Hat Job Interview Question

Q_Linux · 04-20-2012, 01:17 PM

I had someone ask me an interesting interview question today, The question is:

"How does Red Hat Enterprise get created and how does its code flow?"

Any thoughts?

acid_kewpie · 04-20-2012, 01:27 PM

Sounds like a daft question to me. Do they expect you to say a stork delivers it or something?

My answer would genuinely be to ask the question again in a way that made sense.

Q_Linux · 04-20-2012, 01:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

Sounds like a daft question to me. Do they expect you to say a stork delivers it or something?

My answer would genuinely be to ask the question again in a way that made sense.

Don't you just love the trick questions? :-)

But I think the direction they were going was:

The Open Source code comes in through Fedora and there's a lot of community
involvement/argument. Those things that RH wants to put into RHEL come
thorugh there and is reviewed and tweaked by the RH staff.

acid_kewpie · 04-20-2012, 01:59 PM

well, I think redhat are the 2nd or 3rd highest contributor to the Linux kernel, so there's a huge amount of OS code from redhat.

jefro · 04-20-2012, 04:58 PM

They take upstream and locally produced code and compile it and test it would be my answer. But I am not on the hot seat.

Dunno if there is a good answer.

I prefer questions taken from certification tests or training courses.

John VV · 04-20-2012, 10:26 PM

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"How does Red Hat Enterprise get created"

people put it together into a package called a "distro"

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and how does its code flow?"

it flows very nicely , in the last few years i have only have it stop flowing once .
And that was 100% MY fault

now back in the "box"

Quote:

The Open Source code comes in through Fedora and there's a lot of community involvement/argument

yes and no some things come in from fedora but not all

fedora was and IS a "great experiment " that looks to be working

comparing fedora with rhel

fedora is a "day trader"
RHEL is a "mutual bond " and 401k