The most fundamental change in OviOS v6 is the transition of the init system from SysVinit to systemd. This was not a decision made lightly - it reflects a clear and unavoidable shift in the Linux ecosystem. Why we moved: SysVinit has been in maintenance-only mode for years. Distribution maintainers, package authors, and upstream projects have progressively dropped SysVinit support in favour of systemd's native unit files. Shipping a modern storage appliance on a legacy init system would have meant maintaining an ever-growing pile of compatibility shims - a cost that ultimately falls on you, the administrator. Specifically: new versions of Samba, NFS utilities, iSCSI tools, and security daemons ship with systemd unit files only. Backporting SysVinit scripts for each new upstream release added fragility and delayed security updates. The move to systemd eliminates this entirely.
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