Get the latest tech news

Version 256 of systemd Boasts '42% Less Unix Philosophy'


Liam Proven reports via The Register: The latest version of the systemd init system is out, with the openly confrontational tag line: "Available soon in your nearest distro, now with 42 percent less Unix philosophy." As Lennart Poettering's announcement points out, this is the first version of syst...

Liam Proven reports via The Register: The latest version of the systemd init system is out, with the openly confrontational tag line: "Available soon in your nearest distro, now with 42 percent less Unix philosophy." Instead, this is a fresh option that uses a formalized versioning system involving: "... paths whose trailing components have the .v/ suffix, pointing to a directory. He says that the key benefit is that run0 doesn't need setuid, a basic POSIX function, which, to quote its Linux manual page, "sets the effective user ID of the calling process."

Get the Android app

Or read this on Slashdot

Read more on:

Photo of version

version

Photo of systemd

systemd

Photo of Unix philosophy

Unix philosophy

Related news:

News photo

The 'Compact' Version of Stable Diffusion 3 Is Generating Monstrous Human Bodies

News photo

Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy'

News photo

Glish: A version of English where every word is only one syllable