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ParticleOS: Systemd's Very Own Linux Distro in Making (news.itsfoss.com)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/linux
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Aah yes, finally, systemdOS. The prophecy has come true

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm disappointed that they call it ParticleOS and not OSd or Particled to keep the naming scheme intact.

[–] LaggyKar 8 points 3 days ago

It's not a daemon

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

systemd-os built atop systemd-kerneld

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago

Now someone fork it to use SysV

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Man I would love to see the phoronix comments on this

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Probably something about how vaccines cause everyone to use systemd

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

Now fork it and use OpenRC

[–] hunger 6 points 3 days ago

This is the presentation from FOSDEM about the OS:

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4057-particleos-can-we-make-lennart-poettering-run-an-image-based-distribution-/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They had finally added a package manager to systemd, your apt and dnf and emerge are deprecated now.

[–] bitfucker 17 points 3 days ago

If systemd, of all things, manages to pull off universal packaging for linux, it would be funny lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

POS?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago

Another distro, this is getting worse than npm packages.