Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do the sane thing”

Re:Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do th... by dijit on Monday July 10, 2017 @09:45AM (#14735805)

SMF without XML is gods init system.

It's so cleanly engineered, just like ZFS.. makes me sad that solaris died a death.

(Their package management was crap though tbh)

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Re:Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do th... by JdeBP on Monday July 10, 2017 @09:58AM (#14735932)

Well illumos exists and people can always pick up SystemXVI and work on it.

* https://github.com/ServiceManager/ServiceManager/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10212770)

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Re:Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do th... by dijit on Monday July 10, 2017 @11:56AM (#14737069)

I'm a sysadmin, I'm at the mercy of OS developers as to what I run on prod, and Solaris/IllumOS does not have the mindshare linux does.

I am certain that right now the choice of POSIX OS's at large companies such as mine is Debian or RHEL/CentOS. Smaller companies get away with ubuntu.

But nobody is making new infrastructure with IllumOS/Solaris. The most people will deviate is probably Free/OpenBSD.

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