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near Leiden, between The Hague and Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hi! I'm Maxim, a solution architect and evangelist in Red Hat's Benelux team.
Red Hat radiates open source in every possible way, which makes it the perfect company to work for, for an open source enthusiast like me.
As part of my job, I spend a lot of time talking to customers and presenting at conferences about Red Hat's portfolio. Key element is how our solutions can help organizations solve actual business problems.
I also maintain a blog and YouTube channel about the systems and cloud management products in our portfolio. It's fairly technical, but please take a look at the videos by clicking the YouTube icon below, and check out my blog at 100things.wzzrd.com.
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Thanks David! Glad you like it!
As for the sudo thing: though I agree plainly logging in as root is slightly easier, from a security point of view, it takes away some important opportunities to audit users and potentially correlate individual actions to incidents.
It's also a lot easier to give someone temporary privileged access to a machine with sudo, or to provide someone with just some privileges and not just all of them ;)
In fact, I use sudo even on my own machines: the time I need to spend typing in my password is also the time I have to rethink that command I just typed ;)
As for typing less: one thing I have been using to make that a reality is Ansible. There is a recent article about using Ansible as well: https://opensource.com/article/18/7/sysadmin-tasks-ansible
Happy sysadminning!