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Author: steph.tougard
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To: Syeed Ali
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New-Topics: [DNG] Obsoleting questions (was: system administration of non-systemd distros and releases)
Subject: Re: [DNG] system administration of non-systemd distros and releases
The question is so stupid that it does not even call for an answer.

If an admin is unable to understand a Unix system without SystemD, he's not a sys admin.

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On Saturday, November 20th, 2021 at 12:44, Syeed Ali <syeedali@???> wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 11:29:32 +0000
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> Peter Duffy peter@??? wrote:
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> > 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.
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> This is a useful thought experiment. It does come from a position of
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> ignorance and fear, but there's no need to address those things.
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> Get a solid answer to the question: If it became necessary, how
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> difficult would it be to downgrade Devuan to Debian to gain systemd for
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> those theoretical ignorant and inept future sysadmins?
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> If it's easy, perhaps because no significant init stuff is customized
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> and no software requiring systemd is used, then the initial thought
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> experiment's concern has been alleviated and Devuan can be considered.
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