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

30 pointsby logickkk1yesterday at 9:50 PM16 commentsview on HN

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throw0101ayesterday at 10:56 PM

“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

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epennyesterday at 10:56 PM

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

bobbytheblkbeartoday at 12:08 AM

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

pluto_modadicyesterday at 11:24 PM

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?

jauntywundrkindyesterday at 11:28 PM

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.

grigioyesterday at 10:49 PM

when systemdOS with systemd-rpm-install and systemd-antivirus ?

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phendrenad2yesterday at 10:56 PM

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?

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skydhashyesterday at 10:30 PM

Is it systemd/Linux yet? I’m still waiting for shellctl subsystem. /s

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