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First Round of systemd.conf 2015 Sponsors We are happy to announce the first round of systemd.conf 2015 sponsors!

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Announcing systemd.conf 2015 We are happy to announce the inaugural systemd.conf 2015 conference of the systemd project.

With the new v221 release of systemd we are declaring the sd-bus API shipped with systemd stable. sd-bus is our minimal D-Bus IPC C library, supporting as back-ends both classic socket-based D-Bus and kdbus.

In a previous blog story I discussed Factory Reset, Stateless Systems, Reproducible Systems & Verifiable Systems, I now want to take the opportunity to explain a bit where we want to take this with systemd in the longer run, and what we want to build out…

Thanks to the funding from FUDCON I had the chance to attend and keynote at the combined FUDCON Beijing 2014 and GNOME.Asia 2014 conference in Beijing, China.

(Just a small heads-up: I don't blog as much as I used to, I nowadays update my Google+ page a lot more frequently.

You are invited to three events: Christoph Wickert set up a Fedora 19 Release Party here in Berlin!

Two weeks ago I attended GNOME.Asia/Seoul and LinuxCon Japan/Tokyo, thanks to sponsoring by the GNOME Foundation and the Linux Foundation.

My fellow Berliners!

End of February devconf.cz took place in Brno, Czech Republic.

Hey, you, systemd hacker, Fedora hacker!

Since we first proposed systemd for inclusion in the distributions it has been frequently discussed in many forums, mailing lists and conferences.

This is no time for procrastination, here is already the twentieth installment of my ongoing series on systemd for Administrators: Socket Activated Internet Services and OS Containers Socket Activation is an important feature of systemd.

Happy new year 2013!

The Third Berlin Open Source Meetup is going to take place on Sunday, January 20th.

One of the most exciting conferences in the Free Software world, foss.in in Bangalore, India has trouble finding enough sponsoring for this year's edition.

Here's the third episode of of my systemd for Developers series.

Hot on the heels of the previous story, here's now the eighteenth installment of my ongoing series on systemd for Administrators: Managing Resources An important facet of modern computing is resource management: if you run more than one program on a single

It's that time again, here's now the seventeenth installment of my ongoing series on systemd for Administrators: Using the Journal A while back I already posted a blog story introducing some functionality of the journal, and how it is exposed in systemctl.

And, yes, here's now the sixteenth installment of my ongoing series on systemd for Administrators: Gettys on Serial Consoles (and Elsewhere) TL;DR: To make use of a serial console, just use console=ttyS0 on the kernel command line, and systemd will automa…

Chris Kühl and I are organizing a Berlin Open Source Meetup on Aug 19th at the Prater Biergarten in Prenzlauer Berg.

The Linux Plumbers Conference 2012 will take place August 29th to 31st in San Diego, California.

foss.in 2012 in Bangalore takes place again after a hiatus of some years.

Quickly following the previous iteration, here's now the fifteenth installment of my ongoing series on systemd for Administrators: Watchdogs There are three big target audiences we try to cover with systemd: the embedded/mobile folks, the desktop people a…

And here's the fourteenth installment of my ongoing series on systemd for Administrators: The Self-Explanatory Boot One complaint we often hear about systemd is that its boot process was hard to understand, even incomprehensible.

I recently had the chance to speak about systemd and other projects, as well as the politics behind them at a Bar Camp in Warsaw, organized by the fine people of OSEC.

Here's the thirteenth installment of my ongoing series on systemd for Administrators: Log and Service Status This one is a short episode.

We are working on putting together a miniconf on the topic of Boot & Base OS for the Linux Plumbers Conference 2012 in San Diego (Aug 29-31).

There's one feature In the upcoming Fedora 17 release that is immensly useful but very little known, since its feature page 'ckremoval' does not explicitly refer to it in its name: true automatic multi-seat support for Linux.

It has been way too long since my last status update on systemd.

TL;DR: systemd does not require the performance-sensitive bits of Linux control groups enabled in the kernel.

In case you haven't submitted your talk proposal for GUADEC 2012 in A Coruña, Spain yet, hurry: the deadline is on April 14th, i.e. this saturday!

A number of Linux distributions have recently switched (or started switching) to /tmp on tmpfs by default (ArchLinux, Debian among others).

One of the new configuration files systemd introduced is /etc/os-release.

One of the features of Fedora 17 is the /usr merge, put forward by Harald Hoyer and Kay Sievers[1].

Last October we published a wishlist for plumbing related features we'd like to see added to the Linux kernel.

Here's the twelfth installment of my ongoing series on systemd for Administrators: Securing Your Services One of the core features of Unix systems is the idea of privilege separation between the different components of the OS.

Arun put an awesome article up, detailing how PulseAudio compares to Android's AudioFlinger in terms of power consumption and suchlike.

In the past weeks we have been working on a major new addition to systemd that will hopefully positively change the Linux ecosystem in a number of ways.

At LinuxCon Europe/ELCE I had the chance to moderate the kernel hackers panel with Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, Paul McKenney and Thomas Gleixner on stage.

At the Kernel Summit in Prague last week Kay Sievers and I lead a session on developing shared userspace libraries, for kernel hackers.

If you make it to Prague the coming week for the LinuxCon/ELCE/GStreamer/Kernel Summit/... superconference, make sure not to miss: The Linux Audio BoF with numerous Linux audio hackers, 5pm, on Sunday (23rd, i.e. today).

Two weeks ago we published a Plumber's Wishlist for Linux.

Nice one, Google suspended my Google+ account because I created it under, well, my name, which is "Lennart Poettering", and Google+ thinks that wasn't my name, even though it says so in my passport, and almost every document I own and I was never aware I…

#nocomments yes I am currently collecting questions for the kernel developer panel at LinuxCon in Prague.

Google announced today that they'll be shutting down Google Code Search in January.

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