Event details

Beyond init: Systemd

von Lennart Poettering (Red Hat, Inc.)

Friday, 11.06.2010, Europa II, 15:00-16:00 Uhr

Systemd is a system and session manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit.

In this talk I will explain the basic ideas of systemd, and why it is a big step forward from everything Linux had in this area before. I'll explain why we build something new, instead of 'fixing' any of the existing solutions. I'll cover what the benefits for the normal users are, what's in it for administrators and why developers can rejoice too. We'll discuss how the adoption in the distributions will most likely look like. And I'll answer all the questions YOU might have!

Über den Autor Lennart Poettering:

I am working in Red Hat's desktop team on breaking people's audio. I wrote various components of the modern Linux desktop, like PulseAudio, Avahi, libatasmart, libcanberra, lot's of other stuff. You are most likely using some software I take the blame for. There's no escape. Muahaha. Muauauahahahha! Other than that I was born in Guatemala, grew up in Brazil and Hamburg, and now live in Berlin.