You might be giving Lennart too much credit. As the author of the article points...

redwall_hp · on Jan 29, 2019

Avahi is just a reimplementation of something Apple developed, too. Apple developed zeroconf networking, with their implementation of the standard being Bonjour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avahi_(software)#Avahi_vs._Bon...

mixmastamyk · on Jan 29, 2019

Also not a huge fan but it works better than a bunch of shell scripts.

michaelmrose · on Jan 29, 2019

Because runit openrc perp and s6 aren't a thing?

JdeBP · on Jan 29, 2019

Don't forget the Service Access Facility.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/unix-service-access-facility.html

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/daemontools-family.html

darkpuma · on Jan 29, 2019

It works worse than launchd, which Lennart ripped off. My point here is that calling a ripoff artist an inventor is being far too flattering.

(And for the record I wouldn't call Torvalds an inventor either, even though he has more sense than Lennart.)

flukus · on Jan 29, 2019

Don't you still have to resort to shell scripts for anything slightly complicated (mounting a drive on a specific network connection) and just have systemd invoke them?

arminiusreturns · on Jan 29, 2019

So far this is a particular thing I have run into.

DevOps (yelling): no more shell scripts

Devs: systemd fstab is all kinds of fucked for nfsv4

Devs: Writes super complicated script to mount

Me/DevOps: Makes ansible script to make systemd mount paired with service that is basically a wrapper for... a shell script...