Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS

Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by pjmlp on Sunday December 13, 2020 @07:19AM (#25406082)

> hich wasn't necessarily possible the first time, since this is the first time an init system has tried to accomplish these goals that wasn't already intended for a tightly coupled system like Windows or MacOS

If we ignore similar systems on big iron UNIX and mainframes.

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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by kbenson on Sunday December 13, 2020 @09:40PM (#25412941)

Are you making a case that big iron UNIX systems and mainframes had something with as many features and that tried to accomplish something similar in score to systemd (that is, far beyond what sysvinit does)?

I'm happy to hear of them, because I'm ignorant of them if they exist.

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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by pjmlp on Monday December 14, 2020 @02:04AM (#25414315)

I cam not counting feature lists, but having sysvinit like replacements, certainly.

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

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

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_74/rza...

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Re:Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS by kbenson on Monday December 14, 2020 @04:00AM (#25414875)

I was specifically comparing it not just to sysvinit replacements, of which there are many, but trying to bring a lot more features.

Launchd doesn't count, I already mentioned MacOS specifically to account for it. :)

SMF has some features beyong sysvinit that systemd also provides, but I'm not familiar enough with it's advanced usage to know how much beyond the obvious ones (service restart, etc) it does, so I'll try to take a look.

I don't know anything about the IBM one, so that's worth taking a look at. Thanks!

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