[rescue] [geeks] Solaris being discontinued? Rumors flying

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Tue Dec 6 21:17:01 CST 2016


On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 12:08:50AM -0500, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> Why not use Solaris' SMF, I think the license is/was compatible.
> 
> Or maybe leave it alone?  After all, with VMs/containerization the need to calculate complicated dependencies is dropping, which was its main selling point AFAIK.

Don't containers still need something to work out the dependencies
before starting them?  I thought I saw that was something systemd was
adding in the near future, and I don't see why SMF couldn't be used
for the same.


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