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There's also systemd's constant regressions and awkward interfaces and limited functionality when they replace existing solutions. It should have stopped at unifying init scripts, although upstart had that, SMF had it, so it's great to see nosh being cross-platform and able to import system unit files.


Speaking of SMF, it's interesting that the seemingly little effort to recreate it led to systemd, while nobody attempts to create a read/write implementation of ZFS. I mean, if you can accept the license of ZFS (huge piece of code), we could have just as well forked SMF, but a clean slate with a different license may have been a favorable choice.


as to other init systems, OpenBSD did some work on their's http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20160508140927&mo...


Interesting, thanks for the pointer.




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