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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/02/2015 09:27 PM, Lennart
Sorensen wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 04:15:10PM -0400, Alex Volkov wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I thought it would be relevant to this list. Among the new features --
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/whats_new_in_systemd,_2015_edition/">https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/whats_new_in_systemd,_2015_edition/</a>
Things recently added and being worked on:
* systemd-nspawn -- docker-like containers
* btrfs support
* firewall support based on application id and not port numbers
* moving kernel console into userspace, adding high DPI and proper
Unicode support
* resolving config file path with sysctl --edit / sysctl --cat
* network management with networkd
* auditing has indexing and is included in logging
* support of stateless systems
* resolvd -- vpn support, smart dns with support per-interface cache,
support for LLMNR
* rolling avahi into systemd is being worked on
* journald remoting -- remote logging with http using pull and push model
* logging stack traces without gdb
* protect system/home/tmp/devices -- setup minimal namespace
environments for services
* timesyncd -- trivial sntp client with time saving for the devices
with no rtc
* autodiscovery of swap partitions with gptd
* readahead support was dropped
* merge gummiboot into systemd (UEFI secure boot support)
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I can see why people complain about featurecreep.
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<font size="-1">If you're building primitive functions as the main
effort, and shipping products sitting on top of thgem, this
scales. Even elegant constructs like qef have a ton of stuff of
this sort.<br>
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If, however, you're writing A dpends on B depends on C depends on
A for any kind of A, B and C, you're creating spagetti code ( or
perhaps a walled garden if it is intentional). Both lead to
business failure.<br>
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--dave<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify
System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
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