Nick Johnson

In some circles of the system administration world, the Linux user community holds a bad reputation as a pack of dysfunctional script kiddies. Now of course not all Linux users are bad people. By human nature, though, we tend to remember the worst out of any group. I'm sure as time goes by and more businesses and professionals start to take Linux seriously, this reputation is less deserved; but nonetheless if you say "Linux" to many seasoned administrators (especially IRCops), the first thing they think of will be script kiddies - the online equivalent of vandals. They are of little clue (just enough to cause trouble) and absolutely no positive conflict resolution skill whatsoever. These are nerds who think that launching denial of service attacks affecting thousands or millions of users is an acceptable response to being insulted on IRC. They plague more than just th... (more)