There Is No Linux Admin

IT Philosophy, on the category behind the job title Linux Administrator. From the perspective of the person administering it, an operating system is four things sitting on a kernel: a C library, a set of core utilities, an init system and a way of installing software. Alpine runs musl, BusyBox, OpenRC and apk; Fedora runs glibc, GNU coreutils, systemd and dnf; not one of the four layers is shared,…