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Systemd 261 released with systemd-sysinstall, IMDSD, and storagectl

42 points by logickkk1

by throw0101a

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“Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law

by epenn

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I misread IMDSD as IMDB and still thought yeah they might as well throw that in too at this point.

by pluto_modadic

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so - sometimes systemd's build is reliable, sometimes it causes problems. Are these good additions and do they solve real problems, or are they just for cohesion of systemd itself or introduce problems?

by jauntywundrkind

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Really love the systemd-imdsd, this is such a useful cloud-thing to have a common way to look into! "Who am I" finally has a standard interface.
The restartable kernel stuff is really cool. Starting to have userland things that systems can persist across soft-boots (user fd stores) into new kernels is a sweet capability. Excellent to have common machinery to help with that.
As always some really sweet good new security / partitioning tools. Amazing superpowers that continue to build and grow.

by bobbytheblkbear

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I think they should create a kernel for systemd and then perhaps also a filesystem... maybe a GUI too?

by phendrenad2

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Systemd is never beating the allegations that they're taking over everything. Now they have an installer? Why in the world did they need that? I guess someone who does a lot of automated installations donated money?

by skydhash

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by grigio

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