Systemd 240 Continues Picking Up New Features Ahead Of The Holidays

[Guest]

PAM, Polkit, udisks, and upower would fit nicely inside systemd.
As a side effect, ArchLinux users would rejoice at the smaller number of packages to install.

[brrrrttttt]

PAM, Polkit, udisks, and upower would fit nicely inside systemd.
As a side effect, ArchLinux users would rejoice at the smaller number of packages to install.

Yup, and everyone else will get even more mad. Sounds great. 👍

[tildearrow]

If you happen to be running btrfs as your filesystem

Nope. I use ext4.

I don't know what distribution you use, but there seems to have been some kind of regression with recent Ubuntu releases. My Ubuntu VMs with 18.x releases take a full minute or longer to start. My Debian VM, which is also using systemd, hits the login screen in eight seconds.

I use Arch Linux (which is kind of surprising because it is supposed to be lightweight)

Pop!_OS 18.04 / 18.10 boots within seconds with a SSD. Might want to try that out.

That requires changing the hardware... In the 2000's we achieved fast boot times without SSD...

[Guest]

Yup, and everyone else will get even more mad. Sounds great. 👍

The Arch Linux part was sarcastic.
The rest won't happen due to udisks and upower's dependency on GLib.

[brrrrttttt]

The Arch Linux part was sarcastic.
The rest won't happen due to udisks and upower's dependency on GLib.

I could definitely see Polkit being pulled in at some point.

[Apokalypz]

When people ask "Windows or Mac", I say systemd. So my systemd box is currently running Linux. I then confuse further by explaining VMs and VMs within VMs which hold VMs used for developing on certain devices which are designed to interface with the device that's running the VM. That reminds me, is virtualmachined a thing yet?

[pcxmac]

not touching this until they roll in a usable GUI, Wayland preferred.

[Guest]

I could definitely see Polkit being pulled in at some point.

Not without a rewrite. Polkit depends on spidermonkey and GLib.

[lowflyer]

At which point in time does systemd stop "picking up new features" and starts fixing the broken features?

... and why on earth does this remind me of Qt?

[lathiat]

I don't know what distribution you use, but there seems to have been some kind of regression with recent Ubuntu releases. My Ubuntu VMs with 18.x releases take a full minute or longer to start. My Debian VM, which is also using systemd, hits the login screen in eight seconds.

Do this and you'll find out why (or at least get a starting point):

sudo systemd-analyze blame