On 9/29/20 7:38 PM, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2020, 17:37:31 +0200, Richard Brown wrote:
While I can sympathise with your sentiment, I'd like to point out that 'real UNIX' hasn't been a major player in the OS market for decades, and even if you look at its final bastion of Supercomputers, UNIX has been a minority player for at least the last 15 years.
UNIX was just a placeholder for a lot of admins who went through a broad variety of UNIX'es, with Linux being one of them - and yes, it has been a long time, but should they all be scared away?
If you don't go forward, you go backwards.
Or in other words: the old UNIX admins will go away, that's unavoidable, and cannot be stopped, independent of what we are doing. We need to make sure that enough new people are coming. And we need changes which attract them. [...] Are we still talking about completely removing /etc/fstab in favor of dynamically generated systemd mount points? How is that more attractive to newcomers than the old /etc/fstab? Young people doesn't like explicit
I could agree here but... plain lists in text files anymore? ;-) Cheers -- Ancor González Sosa YaST Team at SUSE Linux GmbH -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org