Lennart's Look At Systemd This Year, What's Going To Happen In 2017

Written by Michael Larabel in systemd on 2 October 2016 at 08:34 AM EDT. 39 Comments
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We have already covered some of the interesting talks from this year's systemd conference including how to use it for application sandboxing, a new wireless daemon coming to replace wpa_supplicant, and BUS1 is on the way. But saving the best for last in another presentation to watch this weekend for those interested in systemd: Lennart Poettering's state of the union address for systemd and a look ahead to 2017 features.

Lennart's systemd presentation covered recent improvements/features to systemd as well as a look ahead at some of the ideas baking for future releases. A lot of emphasis was placed on Portable Services for systemd and sandboxing of applications. Some other future ideas are having a Dbus daemon within systemd, more work on containers support, and a variety of new tunables coming. Some of the future options coming include ProtectKernelLogs, ProtectClock, ProtectKernelModules, ProtectMount, ProtectKeyRing, DataDirectory, CacheDirectory, and RestrictNamespaces.

Those interested in systemd can pop a brew and sit back for an hour this weekend watching Lennart's full presentation for those that didn't make it out to systemd.conf 2016 in Berlin.

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