On Friday 19 November 2021 at 12:14:31, Antony Stone wrote: > On Friday 19 November 2021 at 12:06:48, Didier Kryn wrote: > > Le 19/11/2021 à 12:29, Peter Duffy a écrit : > > > I've recently been asked to recommend an upgrade route for a number of > > > linux servers, and I proposed going to devuan. In response, I've had a > > > concern raised which took me by surprise. It was suggested that in the > > > future, it may not be possible to find staff who have the skills to > > > administer and manage servers running non-systemd or pre-systemd > > > distros/releases. > > > > > I suggest that professional admins haven't blinkers like horses and > > > > are supposed to be educated enough to be able to learn even a completely > > new OS. > > This is true, but it's not the techies who are the concern - it's the > employers - they're going to ask for "Red Hat admins", or ask interview > questions about managing systemd machines. > > You might be capable of learning all sorts of stuff, but an employer wants > you to know about it on day one and start doing the job.
Sorry, I phrased that the wrong way round - as though an employer wants a systemd person and one of us applies for the job - but the same argument works the other way around, for a systemd-familiar person going for a sysvint or runit or openrc job. > Antony. -- "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know." - Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng