All Systems Go! 2025

ParticleOS: Why is Lennart still not dogfooding systemd?!
2025-09-30 , Main

More than six months have passed since Daan tried to <del>shame</del> gently peer pressure Lennart to actually use the stuff he builds, via a FOSDEM talk:

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

Did he succeed? Is dogfooding standard practice now in the systemd development process? Or do things like randomly breaking logging in GNOME (cough) still happen from time to time? Join us for this talk to find out, and to apply yet more peer pressure.

We will also spend some time talking about more boring and mundane topics, such as giving an overview of the current status of ParticleOS, and how we build it as a ready-to-consume and secure-by-default signed and self-enrolling appliance on the SUSE Open Build Service.

https://github.com/systemd/particleos
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/system:systemd/particleos-fedora
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/system:systemd/particleos-debian

Software engineer at Microsoft by day, open source developer involved in various projects by night (systemd maintainer, DPDK LTS maintainer, ZeroMQ project co-lead, Debian Developer)

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