[Hamara-devel] Fwd: [Ilugc] [job] Needs Linux Systems Engineer. - New Delhi

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Subject: [Ilugc] [job] Needs Linux Systems Engineer. - New Delhi
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 18:19:34 +0530
From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan at gmail.com>
Reply-To: ILUG-C <ilugc at ae.iitm.ac.in>
To: ILUG-C <ilugc at ae.iitm.ac.in>

NComputing, a leader in desktop virtualization is looking for Linux System
Engineers.

Skills:
- Deep knowledge of Linux desktop architecture (UDev, D-Bus, Xorg, login
and window managers)
- 3+ years of practical experience in C and C++, multi-threaded and
multi-process software
- experience in Bash scripting
- ability to analyze open-source code quickly and efficiently
- agility in debugging and profiling code (GDB, strace, gprof)

Skills that are a bonus:
- ability to develop user space Xorg drivers
- knowledge of Linux package systems: RPM / DEB
- knowledge of Linux device drivers

Location: New Delhi
Education: BE/ B.Tech, ME/ M.Tech, BCA, MCA
Experience: 3 to 5 Years
Salary range: 5 to 12 LPA

To apply, send your resume to hr at osidays.com

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Regards,
T.Shrinivasan


Hi all,

Guess some of you might have seen the above advertisement. For those who 
don't know, it is one of the reasons why in many schools there isn't 
GNU/Linux distribution. They are infamous (in GNU/Linux circles at 
least) for their desktop virtualization hardware/software combo and the 
only version which works is Ubuntu 12.04 with it.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NComputing

To see the above is a sort of vindication as well as am bit of a suspect 
as they have never played good with us before. They are a bit like 
broadcom in many aspects.

If they were to bring out some drivers which would work with most 
GNU/Linux distros it probably would enable many schools who have already 
got Ncomputing systems installed at their premises.

On GNU/Linux side the only competing system I know is the LTSP project 
and in-turn the diskless workstations as offered by Intel 
http://www.disklessworkstations.com/thin-clients.html where there hasn't 
been much progress and there is a dearth of info.

Hence the move to ARM-based solutions where information is not that 
lacking and most vendors themselves fall over telling various recipes 
how their products could be used in form of various use-cases.