[SOLVED] Is 2019 Still Too Soon For Intelligent Assessment of SystemD?
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IT is critical to every sector of society now, yet the bean counters seem to think IT is no more important than serving burgers. Something doesn't add up.
Yet it does add up and you are ironically enough on-topic, the "bean counters" you mentioned were provided with a tool that was designed for them. The background for systemd was to unify and simplify administrative tasks. Translated in requirements for the "bean counters" = low skills, simple training and able to follow simple procedures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_D
But why should I? I did Postfix+Dovecot, LDAP, PXE, RDP over VNC, multiple virtual networks on a single Xen host, etc., ten years ago. Packet filtering and bandwidth shaping on OpenBSD fifteen years ago. I'm no longer running around as an IT guy. I have neither pretensions about nor ambitions beyond my very low rung on the IT ladder. You obviously still consider that important. Good for you, but I simply don't care one bit to use a bleeding OS to do the same things you use it for. I have run Slackware and do run Slackware for different purposes, and it suits me far more than OpenSUSE does, or Scientific Linux ever did.
Good for you Niki, but please don't keep telling us directly and indirectly you and Ivandi are so much superior because you've narrowed in on one aspect of enterprise that CentOS and SUSE do best. We simply don't care, because that's just your area. It's not ours, and it most certainly doesn't prove Slackware is any less suitable for enterprise purposes. Again, good for you, but we simply don't care, and we don't particularly look forward to either of you visiting the Slackware forum to tell us how superior you are and how much more important your work is. If Slackware and its users are so far beneath you just trundle off and spend your life in the SUSE and CentOS forums instead, where you can at least mix with your equals.
A US company here in Ireland offered me a job in IT and I was staggered to learn how poor the pay was. On a par with McDonalds, and not even at manager level. IT is critical to every sector of society now, yet the bean counters seem to think IT is no more important than serving burgers. Something doesn't add up.
Isn't it something to do with saturation and exploitation? i.e. the very fact that IT is critical to every sector of society accounts for the reason why pay is so poor.
To give you a similar example, my previous company used to do a lot of work with Apple, and Apple would pay their own employees chicken feed. And we asked them, because we had quite a good relationship with them, why they paid their employees so little. Their response was words to the effect of, "because people are queueing up to work for us. If someone doesn't want to work for us for low pay, no problem, we'll just take the next in the queue."
When you tell me to "Spend hours and days and weeks" doing work that means the world to you but nothing to me, you're not bothering me. You're patronising me.
When you tell me to "Spend hours and days and weeks" doing work that means the world to you but nothing to me, you're not bothering me. You're patronising me.
I'll make it up to you then. Give me your address, and I'll send you a free copy of my brand new book about Linux server administration.
Zheng He: Columbus and De Gama's largest ships were the size of the lifeboats on Zheng He fleet.
I remember reading a book about that about 15 years ago whilst I was still living in South America. I bought it in the airport and took it with me - which was wise, because finding English language books was hard back then. It was interesting, but as I understand it, it's still very much disputed by historians (and the author was no historian).
Why do you say that?
At least with a VM you can learn how it works and tear it apart without fear of breaking anything important. VMs are great for that purpose.
To learn systemd - commands etc. its OK, but to test against all its failures - I don't think having Linux with systemd in VM would help much.
A quick search on distrowatch shows that 104 (incl.bsd etc) of those distroes run non-systemd while 187 run with systemd.
Just interesting I guess.
It's 40 more if one includes dormant distros [i.e distros which haven't put out a new release in over two years - apparently Slackware does not fall into this category because of the work on -current, in fact, every time the changelog for -current is updated, the 'release date' of -current on DW changes].
And it's a massive 556 distros that are using, and have used, systemd if one includes everything.
Last edited by Lysander666; 09-04-2019 at 05:17 AM.
It's 40 more if one includes dormant distros [i.e distros which haven't put out a new release in over two years - apparently Slackware does not fall into this category because of the work on -current, in fact, every time the changelog for -current is updated, the 'release date' of -current on DW changes].
And it's a massive 556 distros that are using, and have used, systemd if one includes everything.
True, but if you do that with non-systemd distroes as well, you end up with 345, so the ratio is roughly the same.
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