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

[David Collier-Brown]

On 04/02/2015 09:27 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.
>

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.

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.

--dave

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