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DaanDeMeyer

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About DaanDeMeyer

Author of reproc (https://github.com/DaanDeMeyer/reproc), a cross-platform C/C++ process library.

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    Comment #46785935

    Systemd upstream has reviewers and maintainers from a bunch of different companies, and some independent: Red Hat, Meta, Microsoft, etc. This isn't changing, we'll continue to work…

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    Comment #46785520

    So adding all of this technology will certainly make it more easy to be used for either good or bad. And it will certainly become possible to build an OS that will be less hackable…

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    Comment #46785257

    Daan here, founding engineer and systemd maintainer. So we try to make every new feature that might be disruptive optional in systemd and opt-in. Of course we don't always succeed …

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    Comment #45609582

    https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/73632 needs to be addressed and then integrated into meson before systemd could consider adopting rust.

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    Comment #43662204

    I think you'll get the most out of this at the moment if you're interested in actively contributing to systemd. There's lots of work left to be done to make this usable which will …

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    Comment #43662178

    mkosi runs pacman for you and then packs up the result as a disk image. It also builds a unified kernel image and does a bunch of signing. The new /usr partition and UKI are then i…

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    Comment #43654471

    Building the next update locally is slow because erofs has to compress the entirety of /usr on my rather old laptop and that takes a while. Aside from that, I'm using flatpak for f…

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    Comment #43652667

    Yeah I've been running the Arch variant of this on my personal laptop for a while now. Of course no stability guarantees with this for now since you'll be running systemd from sour…

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    Comment #43652336

    You don't have to build ParticleOS images on the machine itself, it's perfectly possible to build them offline somewhere else and download them from the target machine when doing a…

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    Comment #41076103

    There's lots of tools in this space. I work on https://github.com/systemd/mkosi for example.