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There's been a lot of noise about systemd recently, and I would like to filter out that. I'm somewhat interested in linux in general, so I don't think filtering on the linux tag would be a suitable work-around.
Doing a "comments and stories" search for "systemd" gives about twice as many hits as ...
Relevant excerpt from the changes of the 231 version:
>A new service setting MemoryDenyWriteExecute= has been added, taking a boolean value. If turned on, a service may no longer create memory mappings that are writable and executable at the same time. This enhances security for services where this...
Lennart Poettering commented on [reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4ypb2g/systemd_rolls_out_its_own_mount_tool/d6qicwi).
I don't know if someone already posted it but there are some interesting talks, e.g. using systemd bindings in [Go and Rust](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB6WvrHIvwg)
It’s useful to read this after [his previous entry, about X,](https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XWindowsViews) which substantially sets up the comparison he tries to make here.