At this point there are at least three fairly major "post-sysV" integrated launch/supervision/config systems that I would guess the FreeBSD devs will take away some lessons from (especially because I know there are FreeBSD devs with experience using each of them): Linux's systemd, Solaris's SMF, and OSX's launchd.
Re:FreeBSD: the next 10 years
by keithpeter on Saturday November 22, 2014 @09:35AM
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Perhaps I should have said 'something like' and qualified the differences.
I'm sure the BSD community can learn and can improve on the idea. Perhaps their result could be ported back to Linux as an alternative.
Correct. Unfortunately systemd is not a well separated 'stack' in the middle between kernel and applications but an interweaved network which tightly connects all three parts.
I hope that the community has learned from the SystemV/systemd discussion and will go a new way which avoids the weaknesses of both systems towards a cleanly separated layer.