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OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

Posted Aug 29, 2012 18:52 UTC (Wed) by mabshoff (guest, #86444)
In reply to: OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns by dmitrij.ledkov
Parent article: OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

Solaris has SMF - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Management_Facility

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OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

Posted Aug 29, 2012 19:25 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

I noticed that while using systemctl on my fedora systems that some of the aspects of administration used in systemd borrow from Solaris.

It's was a bit disturbing when I realized the similarities, but oh well.

OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

Posted Aug 29, 2012 23:19 UTC (Wed) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

Sure systemd has similarities to SMF; in fact, it was one of the many init systems they looked at when architecting.

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