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.

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