Systemd 242 Gearing Up For Release With XBOOTLDR Support, Other New Features

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Systemd 242 Gearing Up For Release With XBOOTLDR Support, Other New Features

With it approaching two months since the release of systemd 241, Lennart Poettering and his gang of systemd developers are putting the finishing touches on systemd 242 with a release candidate now being available...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=systemd-242-rc1

[Redfoxmoon]

SystemdOS is coming along nicely.

[pininety]

- Support for booting with a kernel command line option of systemd.volatile=overlay to cause the root file-system to be setup as an overlayfs mount paired with tmpfs, which will cause no changes to the underlying root device and all changes lost at reboot.

That sounds amazing, one step closer to getting a read only root.

[Guest]

That sounds amazing, one step closer to getting a read only root.

One step closer to a "linux system administrators only OS". How much?

[Britoid]

Nice.

Really looking forward to the bootloader changes, would be nice to eventually have a better-supported replacement for grub.

[pininety]

One step closer to a "linux system administrators only OS". How much?

Hu? How is this a step to a "linux system administrators only OS"? Most users would not even notice as long as the graphical configuration tools recognize this and have the ability to write back changes to the underlying root partition. As it is, it will most likely only be used by embedded people and enthusiasts.

[skeevy420]

Didn't take long at all for the usual systemd troll posts to arrive.

[grumbert]

Didn't take long at all for the usual systemd troll posts to arrive.

rumour has it that if you say systemd 3 times in front of a mirror , Weasel and hreindl will turn up and call each other idiots.

[Guest]

I remember when "+s" was the simplest thing in the world.

[reavertm]

That sounds amazing, one step closer to getting a read only root.

Read only root was supported long before systemd existed. And with systemd as well. Just mount / on tmpfs and initialize from image (initrd/initramfs for instance). How else would bootable images work.