Hacker News with Generative AI: Systemd

Debian Testing/Trixie removes systemd-resolved (ycombinator.com)
Debian's systemd maintainer today removed both systemd-resolved and systemd-nspawn packages [0] from Testing/Trixie/Debian 13 - soon to be in feature freeze - due to disagreements with the Technical Committee [1].

Debian, Linux, Operating Systems, Systemd, Technical Committees

36 points by iam-TJ 5 days ago | 3 comments

Quadlet: Running Podman containers under systemd (mo8it.com)
Quadlet lets you run your Podman containers as systemd services. This is especially useful for running containers in the background and automatically starting them after a server reboot.

Containers, Linux, Systemd, Podman

298 points by gjvc 10 days ago | 68 comments

Working with Systemd Timers (yieldcode.blog)
The other day I thought to myself that it would be a good idea to have some backups of my data. So I was wondering, how would I execute a periodic backup task?

Systemd, Linux, Operating Systems, Automation, Backups

80 points by skwee357 23 days ago | 78 comments

Replace Docker Compose with Quadlet and Systemd (matduggan.com)
So for years I've used Docker Compose as my stepping stone to k8s. If the project is small, or mostly for my own consumption OR if the business requirements don't really support the complexity of k8s, I use Compose.

Docker, Systemd, Kubernetes, Containerization, DevOps

23 points by slyall 40 days ago | 3 comments

On Running systemd-nspawn Containers (2022) (benjamintoll.com)
I’d like to talk more about a container technology that I really like that I touched upon in a previous article: systemd-nspawn.

Linux, Containers, Systemd

116 points by cautious-fly 41 days ago | 58 comments

Systemd Adding Ability to Boot Directly into a Disk Image Downloaded via HTTP (phoronix.com)
Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has been working on adding the ability to let systemd boot directly into a disk image downloaded via HTTP within the initial RAM disk (initrd) during the Linux boot process.

Operating Systems, Linux, Systemd, Boot Process, HTTP

5 points by transpute 50 days ago | 1 comments

Systemd adding the ability to boot directly into disk image downloaded via HTTP (phoronix.com)
Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has been working on adding the ability to let systemd boot directly into a disk image downloaded via HTTP within the initial RAM disk (initrd) during the Linux boot process.

Operating Systems, Linux, Systemd, Boot Process, Networking

9 points by marcodiego 51 days ago | 1 comments

14 Years of Systemd (theregister.com)
FOSDEM 2025 FOSDEM returned to Brussels for the first weekend in February – not without some controversial people.

Systemd, Operating Systems, Linux, FOSDEM, Conferences

16 points by zdw 54 days ago | 0 comments

Sixos: A nix OS without systemd [video] (media.ccc.de)
This talk announces the first public release of sixos, a two year project to create a nixpkgs-based operating system using skarnet's s6 supervisor instead of systemd.

Linux, Operating Systems, NixOS, Systemd

180 points by transpute 62 days ago | 357 comments

Why systemd is a problem for embedded Linux (kevinboone.me)
The Internet is full of rants about systemd, and I don’t want this post to be another one. Many of the complaints people make about it don’t stand up to much scrutiny, even the technical ones; and many complaints are not even technical. My particular interest in Linux is primarily for embedded applications; and there, I suggest, systemd is creating a potential (technical) problem.

Linux, Embedded Systems, Systemd

208 points by synergy20 150 days ago | 300 comments

Modern USB gadget on Linux and how to integrate it with systemd (Part 1) (2019) (collabora.com)
tl;dr: Automate your gadget creation. A look at how to implement USB gadget devices on Linux machines which have the necessary UDC hardware, automate the manual configfs process via declarative gadget "schemes", and use systemd for gadget composition at boot time.

Linux, USB, Systemd, Automation, Hardware

12 points by GalaxySnail 177 days ago | 2 comments

Varlink – IPC to replace D-Bus gradually in systemd (varlink.org)
Varlink is an interface description format and protocol that aims to make services accessible to both humans and machines in the simplest feasible way.

Systemd, Open Source, Linux, Networking

162 points by synergy20 186 days ago | 258 comments

Porting systemd to musl Libc-powered Linux (catfox.life)
I have completed an initial new port of systemd to musl. This patch set does not share much in common with the existing OpenEmbedded patchset. I wanted to make a fully updated patch series targeting more current releases of systemd and musl, taking advantage of the latest features and updates in both. I also took a focus on writing patches that could be sent for consideration of inclusion upstream.

Linux, Systemd, Musl Libc, Open Source, Operating Systems

192 points by todsacerdoti 210 days ago | 200 comments

Creating an Immutable System with NixOS, systemd-repart and systemd-sysupdate (x86.lol)

NixOS, System Administration, Linux, Immutable Systems, Systemd

9 points by ssernikk 216 days ago | 0 comments

Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective (2020) (darknedgy.net)

Operating Systems, Linux, Systemd, History, Technical

72 points by fanf2 239 days ago | 90 comments

BusyBox: Life Without Systemd (2018) (busybox.net)

Linux, Operating Systems, Systemd, BusyBox

49 points by bryango 251 days ago | 31 comments

Systemd Talks Up Automatic Boot Assessment in Light of the CrowdStrike Outage (phoronix.com)