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Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by anthk on Sunday November 29, 2020 @01:49PM (#25247036)
SystemD is like Solaris service manager, but far worse.

And, on cgroups, I think AIX has something like that but much, much, MUCH better.

Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by qz2 on Sunday November 29, 2020 @03:14PM (#25247681)
It’s even worse. Systemd, dbus and journald are basically service manager, DCOM and Event Log from windows, but worse!

It’s not the wrong type of solution but systemd is somewhat stinky compared to what we could have had.

Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by pjmlp on Sunday November 29, 2020 @04:39PM (#25248327)
D-BUS ideas actually trace back to ToolTalk on Solaris.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ToolTalk

Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by mixmastamyk on Sunday November 29, 2020 @02:14PM (#25247227)
What made Solaris sm better? Curious as I never used that one.
Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by pjmlp on Sunday November 29, 2020 @02:04PM (#25247156)
It is called LPAR.
Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by monocasa on Sunday November 29, 2020 @04:13PM (#25248138)
It's called WPAR. LPARs are hypervisor level partitioning.
Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by pjmlp on Sunday November 29, 2020 @04:36PM (#25248310)
You're right, I stand corrected.
Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by otabdeveloper4 on Sunday November 29, 2020 @04:39PM (#25248328)
Systemd does a lot more than just manage services. The underlying architecture is a generic resource and dependency management system.
Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by nix23 on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:01AM (#25254404)
>generic resource and dependency management system

Generic is the complete wrong word for systemd, it's the opposite of Generic.