Solaris guys certainly wouldn't tell you that, unless they haven't used Solaris in the last decade. Since Solaris 10 (2005), it has a unified process supervisio

Solaris guys certainly wouldn't tell you that, unless they haven't used Solaris in the last decade. Since Solaris 10 (2005), it has a unified process supervision and init system, with declarative config files, dependency boot, and all that other good stuff that's just now coming to Linux. It's part of the Service Management Facility (SMF), which replaced the old init-script-based system. The Illumos distributions all use SMF as well, not BSD or SysV-style init/rc scripts. A few design decisions are now seen as warts (today, XML probably wouldn't have been chosen for the config files), but I think SMF is pretty widely seen as an improvement vs. managing services with shell scripts.