Oh, I don't blame Torvalds -- but I do think it's coming out of that same NIH culture that seems deliberately unwilling to look beyond their own system. As for

Oh, I don't blame Torvalds -- but I do think it's coming out of that same NIH culture that seems deliberately unwilling to look beyond their own system. As for illumos, we already have SMF. I have often said that the only thing worse than SMF is not having SMF -- and at some point I intend to tell the full story there: it wasn't always pretty, and it actually makes for an interesting comparison with the systemd adventure.