Fedora 39 Looks To Ship mkosi-initrd As A Modern Alternative To Dracut

[zdzichu]

Will it support NFS root? Not that would it be a regression, dracut has broken nfsroot for years.

[finalzone]

...And devs, please fix the name “mkosi-initrd” is one of the worst names I've ever heard...

Time to learn other cultural languages, "mkosi is both a Swahili and Zulu words. Get used to.

[Vistaus]

Time to learn other cultural languages, "mkosi is both a Swahili and Zulu words. Get used to.

I already posess a couple languages and am always educating myself. Doesn't mean I have to agree that every word is a good product name.

[avis]

The fact that each distro builds their own initrd differently is kinda depressing.

To be honest I'm looking forward to the day when all the distros have a common kernel repository from which a particular distro pulls something it deems appropriate according to its updates policy.

[andyprough]

The fact that each distro builds their own initrd differently is kinda depressing.

To be honest I'm looking forward to the day when all the distros have a common kernel repository from which a particular distro pulls something it deems appropriate according to its updates policy.

Yes, and I'm sure that your new "Central Kernel Repository" would be controlled by a partnership between IBM, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and a couple of other real corporate champions of software freedom. Probably Oracle would shove their way into the party. And nVidia and Intel of course - why not? How delightful.

[avis]

Yes, and I'm sure that your new "Central Kernel Repository" would be controlled by a partnership between IBM, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and a couple of other real corporate champions of software freedom. Probably Oracle would shove their way into the party. And nVidia and Intel of course - why not? How delightful.

Well, I'm on Fedora and I've always got my own kernel compiled and installed - no one is taking this from you.

Default distro kernels are bloated as hell anyways:

My kernel 6.2.14: 5,058,208 bytes
vmlinuz-6.2.14-300.fc38.x86_64 14,238,728 bytes

And with my kernel the system boots twice as fast (Fedora uses hellishly slow XZ for compressing modules, I use ZSTD).

[andyprough]

Well, I'm on Fedora and I've always got my own kernel compiled and installed - no one is taking this from you.

Default distro kernels are bloated as hell anyways:

My kernel 6.2.14: 5,058,208 bytes
vmlinuz-6.2.14-300.fc38.x86_64 14,238,728 bytes

And with my kernel the system boots twice as fast (Fedora uses hellishly slow XZ for compressing modules, I use ZSTD).

I think you're right, I've built a lot of kernels and they always seemed faster. I never paid much attention to how large they are, that's a good point. When you need only enough to run your specific system, you should be able to get it a lot smaller and faster.

[openminded]

Wow proper usage of "exotic" word. Not "esoteric" which is often seen instead.