Questions for linux gurus.

[Dapper Dan]

I don't really consider myself a guru but I have been using Linux for over 10 years, you tend to learn a few things along the way.....being able to remember it all is half the battle.

Ain't it the truth! Occasionally I run across old posts of mine and am amazed at the things I used to know that I don't remember now! I guess a lot of knowledge you once had gets lost along the way from not using it regularly...

[oz]

Occasionally I run across old posts of mine and am amazed at the things I used to know that I don't remember now! I guess a lot of knowledge you once had gets lost along the way from not using it regularly...

lol... that happens to me all the time, too. Sometimes I literally sit there wondering where the info that I posted years ago came from?

Of course, that occasionally happens with newer posts as well!

[JeffGoldblum]

Does anyone here know a large amount of the details of how Linux works, the kernel, the interactions that take place ...The kind of stuff that a person with a master's degree in computer science who only cares about *nix would know?

[MikeTbob]

Does anyone here know a large amount of the details of how Linux works, the kernel, the interactions that take place ...The kind of stuff that a person with a master's degree in computer science who only cares about *nix would know?

I'm sure there are several people here who would know stuff like this. I bet they even wrote some of it down for us somewhere.
The Linux Documentation Project

[computerophil]

I don't consider myself as a guru. Specially the field "LINUX" is that big that I myself met just once someone I consider as a guru. All the others were good in one area or the other but didn't have the slightest idea in the next.

If you need an overview about distributions I can help you I know hundreds (in some way like a journalist up to date) but I am not good at the console my friend who taught me everything is good at the console but only. Whenever he needs something else he asks me.

[questio verum]

Call me old-fashioned, but very few of the people who get tagged as "gurus" actually deserve the title. That's not to say they're not skilled. It's just that a guru is so skilled as to be able to guide someone intuitively in any aspect of their field of endeavor. To me, a good definition of 'guru' would be the one found in wikipedia: "a person who is regarded as having great knowledge, wisdom and authority in a certain area, and uses it to guide others". The word guru implies "guide" or "teacher". I would consider Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton, or Ian Murdoch to be gurus.

I don't really consider myself a guru but I have been using Linux for over 10 years, you tend to learn a few things along the way.....being able to remember it all is half the battle. I still learn something new everyday and look forward to learning a whole lot more.

Well put! One very good reason why I personally could never attain guru status. Being a guru demands a steel trap memory, a staggering knowledge base, and the ability to always 'be on' and able to visualize any and all problems in an instant. I've been around a handful of people who could function at that level, and found the experience extremely humbling.

qv

[rokytnji]

Being a guru demands a steel trap memory, a staggering knowledge base, and the ability to always 'be on' and able to visualize any and all problems in an instant

Well put also Questo. That is why my designation in this forum should state "Friganeer" or "Shady Tree Mechanic" instead of "Engineer"

[MikeTbob]

Well put also Questo. That is why my designation in this forum should state "Friganeer" or "Shady Tree Mechanic" instead of "Engineer"

HAHA Funny Roky.
@Questio: I agree with Roky, that was well put also +2.