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

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Fri Apr 3 01:27:48 UTC 2015


On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 04:15:10PM -0400, Alex Volkov wrote:
> 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)

I can see why people complain about featurecreep.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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