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

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And it's subsuming another bit of Linux by replacing sudo

Version 256, as usual, brings in a broad assortment of new features, but also turns off some older features that are now considered deprecated. For instance, it won't run underbinary, which can automatically select the latest member of versioned directories. Before any OpenVMS admirers get excited, no, Linux does not now support versions on files or directories.

In my ideal world, we'd have an OS entirely without SUID. Let's throw out the concept of SUID on the dump of UNIX' bad ideas. The new alternative does no such sleight of hand. Instead, it just gets the systemd daemon to run the command for you, using a special form of the existing, which handles importing and exporting both block-level and file-system-level disk images. And there's a new type of system service called aWe suspect that, as usual, many old xNix hands will grumble that this sort of functionality doesn't belong in ansystem. This is arguably true, but the rise of systemd now seems inexorable.

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