[GTALUG] Lennart Poettering talk on new features of systemd at FOSDEM

[Alex Volkov]

I thought it would be relevant to this list. Among the new features --

https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/whats_new_in_systemd,_2015_edition/

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)