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SystemD is like Solaris service manager, but far worse.

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



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.


D-BUS ideas actually trace back to ToolTalk on Solaris.

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


What made Solaris sm better? Curious as I never used that one.


It is called LPAR.


It's called WPAR. LPARs are hypervisor level partitioning.


You're right, I stand corrected.


Systemd does a lot more than just manage services. The underlying architecture is a generic resource and dependency management system.


>generic resource and dependency management system

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




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