Someone Forked systemd Over Its New Birth Date Field
The blog Linuxiac reports:
A new systemd fork has appeared with a specific purpose: removing systemd’s recently added support for storing a user’s birth date in JSON user records.
The fork, called Liberated systemd, published its first tagged release as v261 shortly after the official systemd 261 release. In other words, the fork follows upstream systemd while reverti … ⌘ Read more
systemd 261 Released With New systemd-sysinstall OS Installer, IMDSD & Storagectl
Systemd 261 is out as stable today with a number of new features and ready to coincide with H2’2026 Linux distributions… ⌘ Read more
Linux App Summit 2026 (Heise)
Heise is carrying a\
report from the Linux App Summit, held in Berlin in May.
The slightly more than a dozen talks were symbolically framed
between the opening keynote by systemd creator Lennart Poettering
and the closing talk by Jorge Castro, initiator of the Universal
Blue project, from which the modern Linux systems Bluefin and
Bazzite emerged. Both Castro and Poettering ca … ⌘ Read more
systemd 261-rc3 Released With Individual Binaries Now Embedding dlopen ELF Metadata Note
The stable release of systemd 261 is quickly approaching for being found in H2’2026 Linux distributions… ⌘ Read more
NixOS 26.05 Released With 20,442 New Packages, Stage 1 Now Based On systemd By Default
NixOS 26.05 is out today as the latest version of this Linux distribution built around the Nix package manager… ⌘ Read more
Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd
Article URL: https://www.osnews.com/story/145071/flatpak-will-depend-on-systemd/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48277355
Points: 7
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systemd 261-rc1 Released With OS Installer, IMDS Subsystem & New storagectl
The first release candidate of systemd 261 is out today and it includes yet more features for this Linux init system and service manager… ⌘ Read more
SUSE/openSUSE Agama Installer Now Warns For No-Desktop Installs, Supports systemd-boot
SUSE engineers continue working on their modern “Agama” operating system installer used by the latest SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE Linux distributions. Out today is Agama 21 to incorporate their latest OS installer enhancements… ⌘ Read more
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (corosync, dovecot, image-builder, python-tornado, resource-agents, and systemd), Debian (openjdk-11, openjdk-17, and pyjwt), Fedora (pdns, pyOpenSSL, and squid), Slackware (hunspell), SUSE (alloy, avahi, bubblewrap, cmctl, coredns, curl, dpkg, firefox, golang-github-prometheus-prometheus, grafana, libpng12, PackageKit, sed, and xen), and Ubuntu (docker.io-app, nghttp2, python-django, and python-mako). ⌘ Read more
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, libcap, LibRaw, openssh, thunderbird, and tigervnc), Debian (libarchive and lxd), Fedora (chromium, insight, nodejs20, rust-sequoia-git, and uriparser), Mageia (kernel, kmod-virtualbox), Oracle (kernel, libcap, thunderbird, and uek-kernel), Red Hat (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, fence-agents, sudo, and systemd), Slackware (httpd), SUSE (freerdp, hauler, helm, himmelblau, kernel, libspectre, thunderbird, tri … ⌘ Read more
Devuan Developer Working On Reviving GTK2 With Modern Fixes
A Devuan developer, the Linux distribution that provides a Debian-based operating system without dependence on systemd, is working on “gtk2-ng” for providing modern fixes and improvements to the old GTK2 toolkit… ⌘ Read more
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (capstone, cockpit, firefox, git-lfs, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, kea, kernel, nghttp2, nodejs24, openexr, perl-XML-Parser, rsync, squid, and vim), Debian (imagemagick, systemd, and thunderbird), Slackware (libexif and xorg), SUSE (bind, clamav, firefox, freerdp2, giflib, go1.25, go1.26, helm, ignition, libpng16, libssh, oci-cli, rust1.92, strongswan, sudo, xorg-x11-server, and xwayland), and Ubuntu (rust-tar and rustc, rustc-1.7 … ⌘ Read more
user.* xattrs On Sockets Merged For Linux 7.1 As Sought By GNOME & systemd Developers
On this first day of the Linux 7.1 merge window, among the early pull requests merged were beginning to land the various VFS pull requests submitted by Christian Brauner. Among that code merged is enabling support for user.* extended attributes on sockets… ⌘ Read more
Via https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat/issues/3220#issuecomment-4198066671 I came across this nice selection on why not to use AI: https://github.com/Vxrpenter/AIMania/blob/main/WHY.md#why
This then lead me to the slopware list: https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware
Holy shit, there’s even more than I thought. :-O In addition to Vim, the following affects me more or less daily (but hopefully not my ancient versions): curl, VLC, ImageMagick, rsync, Python, systemd and even the Linux Kernel itself. Oh fuck me dead. :‘-(
SystemD Contributor Harassed Over Optional Age Verification Field, Suggests Installer-Level Disabling
It’s FOSS interviewed a software engineer whose long-running open source contributions include Python code for the Arch Linux installer and maintaining packages for NixOS. But “a recent change he made to systemd has pushed him into the spotlight” after he’d added the optiona … ⌘ Read more
Fish 4.6 Shell Brings Support For Recent systemd Environment Variables
Fish 4.6 released today as the newest version of this Rust-based interactive shell for Linux and other platforms… ⌘ Read more
SystemD Adds Optional ‘birthDate’ Field for Age Verification to JSON User Records
“The systemd project merged a pull request adding a new birthDate field to the JSON user records managed by userdb in response to the age verification laws of California, Colorado, and Brazil,” reports the blog It’s FOSS.
They note that the field “can only be set by administrators, not by users themselves” — it’s … ⌘ Read more
SysV Init 3.16 Released With Cleanups, Improved systemd Unit To SysV Script Conversion
For any holdouts still running SysV Init instead of systemd or other alternatives like OpenRC, SysV Init 3.16 is out as the first release in a half-year and bringing a few refinements… ⌘ Read more
systemd 260 Released: mstack, SysV Service Scripts Removed & AI Agents Documentation
Systemd 260 was just released as the newest stable version of this widely-used Linux init system and service manager. Systemd 260 brings yet more features to this critical open-source project and to be incorporated into H1’2026 Linux distributions… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.0 cpupower Now Handles systemd Service Setting EPP, Intel P-State Turbo Boost
The cpupower tool that lives within the Linux kernel source tree has squeezed in a few improvements today for the ongoing Linux 7.0 development cycle… ⌘ Read more
systemd 260-rc3 Released With AI Agents Documentation Added
The first release candidate of systemd 260 arrived in late February with the new mstack feature, dropping System V service scripts support, and other changes. A week after that systemd 260-rc2 released with a few more changes and now another week later is systemd 260-rc3… ⌘ Read more
systemd 260-rc2 Released With More Changes
Last week marked the release of systemd 260-rc1 with a new “mstack” feature, a new “FANCY_NAME” field for os-release, dropping System V service script support, and other changes. Out today is systemd 260-rc2 release with more changes in further working its way toward a stable release for empowering 2026 Linux distributions… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.1 Looks To Support Extended Attributes On Sockets For New GNOME & systemd Functionality
While the Linux 7.0 feature merge window ended this past weekend and that next kernel release won’t debut as stable until April, there are already features out on the horizon that are being positioned for likely merging into the Linux 7.1 kernel assuming no issues appear or objections raised by Linus Torvalds. One of the features already looking like it will be submitted for Linux 7.1 is supporting extended attri … ⌘ Read more
systemd 260-rc1 Released: New “mstack” Feature, System V Service Scripts No Longer Supported
The first release candidate of systemd 260 is now available for testing. Systemd 260 finally does away with System V service scripts support. Also notable to systemd 260 is the work around the new “mstack” feature… ⌘ Read more
Author of Systemd Quits Microsoft To Prove Linux Can Be Trusted
Lennart Poettering has left Microsoft to co-found Amutable, a new Berlin-based company aiming to bring cryptographically verifiable integrity and deterministic trust guarantees to Linux systems. He said in a post on Mastodon that his “role in upstream maintenance for the Linux kernel will continue as it always has.” Poettering will also continue to … ⌘ Read more
Systemd Founder Lennart Poettering Announces Amutable Company
Systemd founder and lead developer Lennart Poettering announced the creation of a new company called Amutable. The Amutable company being led by Chris Kühl (CEO), Christian Brauner (CTO) and Lennart Poettering (Chief Engineer) will be focused on delivering determinism and verifiable integrity to Linux systems… ⌘ Read more
KDE’s ‘Plasma Login Manager’ Stops Supporting FreeBSD - Because Systemd
KDE’s “Plasma Login Manager” is apparently dropping support for FreeBSD, the Unix-like operating system, reports the blog It’s FOSS. They cite a recently-accepted merge request from a KDE engineer to drop the code supporting FreeBSD, since the login manager relies on systemd/logind:
systemd and logind look like hard dependencies of the … ⌘ Read more
T2/Linux Brings a Flagship KDE Plasma Linux Desktop to RISC-V and ARM64
After “a decade of deep focus on embedded and server systems,” T2 SDE Linux “is back to the Desktop,” according to its web site, calling the new “T2 Desktop” flavour “ready for everyday home and office use!”
Built on the latest KDE Plasma, systemd, and Wayland, the new T2 Desktop flavour delivers a modern, clean, and performant exp … ⌘ Read more
Devuan 6.1 Released For Latest Debian 13 “Init Freedom” Without systemd
Released back in November was Devuan 6.0 for Debian 13 without systemd dependence in order to provide “init freedom” with letting users instead opt for SysVinit, OpenRC, or Runit as the init system. Devuan 6.1 is out today as the newest stable point release… ⌘ Read more
Systemd 259 Released With Experimental Musl libc Support, More Features
Systemd 259 is out as the newest feature release for this widely-used Linux init system and service manager. Yes, there are more features in tow for this systemd release to top off 2025… ⌘ Read more
systemd 259-rc1 Released With Musl libc Support, New run0 “Empower” Mode
Released a short time ago was systemd 259-rc1 as the first test release toward this next version of this dominant Linux init system and service manager… ⌘ Read more
systemd Lands Experimental Support For musl libc
Systemd today finally merged support for building against and using the musl libc library. This is a win for Linux distributions like postmarketOS, Alpine Linux, and others that use musl by default as their standard C library or offer it as an option… ⌘ Read more
Red Hat’s RHEL 10.1 Released With systemd Soft-Reboots, Easier AI Accelerator Drivers
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 has reached general availability with a number of enhancements to this leading enterprise Linux distribution. As with so many things in 2025, AI is a big focus for RHEL 10.1… ⌘ Read more
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Hmm, so it seems this Mike is the one who inherited it: https://tilde.club/~deepend/, but not too active anywhere, though pinging “deepend” on Libera might work...
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@bender@twtxt.net Sounds about right.
I had a brainfart yesterday, though. For whatever reason I thought of subdomains, which are modeled with server entries in nginx. So, each could define its own access_log location. However, there are no subdomains in place! Searching around, I didn’t find any solution to give each user their own access log file.
One way would be a cronjob, aeh, systemd timer as I learned the other day, that greps the main access log and writes all user access log files with only the relevant stuff.
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Thank you for https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-11-09/0/POSTING-en.html, @movq! I never configured systemd timers, but I would have gotten it wrong, too. Good to know when I eventually stumble across that in the future. I'm still using cron. Yeah, its field order sucks and I always have to look it up (because I don't deal with that all that often). Indeed, systemd's order sounds more reasonable.
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, I’m glad I’m not the only one who didn’t get this right. 😅 You never had to configure a systemd timer? Lucky. 😅
Thank you for https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-11-09/0/POSTING-en.html, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! I never configured systemd timers, but I would have gotten it wrong, too. Good to know when I eventually stumble across that in the future. I’m still using cron. Yeah, its field order sucks and I always have to look it up (because I don’t deal with that all that often). Indeed, systemd’s order sounds more reasonable.
Devuan 6.0 Released: No Systemd & Non-Woke Debian
Devuan’s Code of Conduct: “We accept everyone’s contributions, we don’t care if you’re liberal or conservative, black or white, straight or gay, or anything in between!” ⌘ Read more
systemd-appd Is A New Component Being Planned By Flatpak Developers
Given this week’s release of Flatpak 1.17 for app sandboxing, open-source developer Sebastian Wick published a blog post on Tuesday around the latest Flatpak developments and a look ahead at some of the feature development planned. Arguably most significant of that is the plans for systemd-appd… ⌘ Read more
“detect-fash” Feature Developed (and Rejected) for Systemd
“A utility to detect problematic software and configurations,” such as Omarchy Linux, Hyprland, & Ladybird, was developed by an account with a Russian Military email address. ⌘ Read more
Google’s “AI” is convinced Solaris uses systemd
Who doesn’t love a bug bounty program? Fix some bugs, get some money – you scratch my back, I pay you for it. The CycloneDX Rust (Cargo) Plugin decided to run one, funded by the Bug Resilience Program run by the Sovereign Tech Fund. That is, until “AI” killed it. We received almost entirely AI slop reports that are irrelevant to our tool. It’s a library and most reporters didn’t even bother to read the rules or even look at what the intend … ⌘ Read more
Devuan: The Non-Woke Debian Linux Fork (Without Systemd)
“We don’t care if you’re liberal or conservative, black or white, straight or gay, or anything in between! In fact, we won’t bring it up or ask.” ⌘ Read more
Go 語言實現 systemctl 管理系統服務
在 Linux 系統中，systemd 已然成爲主流的初始化系統和服務管理器，而 systemctl 命令則是我們與之交互的橋樑。對於 Go 開發者而言，直接使用 Shell 調用 systemctl 固然可行，但難免顯得不夠優雅，並且需要編寫額外的代碼來解析命令輸出。爲解決這一問題，taigrr/systemctl 庫應運而生。它爲 Go 開發者提供了符合習慣用法的 systemctl 綁定， ⌘ Read more
https://chimera-linux.org/docs/faq Interesting point of view #systemd #elogind #chimeralinux
https://artixlinux.org Running Artix (arch linux without systemD) with runit as pid 1. I have done all I want for now. Clean & KISS. Thumbs up!
NiceOS – a Linux distribution that uses packages from whatever Linux distro you want
No SystemD. No default package manager. NiceOS is… weird. But also nice. ⌘ Read more