In light of the CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage/disaster that has been wreaking havoc on corporate Windows systems around the world since Friday, systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering pointed out how such a situation on Linux systems could be averted by leveraging systemd’s Automatic Boot Assessment functionality.

System’s Automatic Boot Assessment feature can allow for reverting to a previous version of the OS or kernel automatically when a system consistently fails to boot. With the systemd-boot bootloader and related tooling within systemd and leveraging the Boot Loader Specification, systemd Automatic Boot Assessment would make for much easier recovery in case of an incident like what happened with Microsoft Windows systems running CrowdStrike software last week.

  • @maniiiEnglish
    -1•4 months ago

    Please, please let this dude implement the systemd into Microsoft Windows :-D

    And when systemd is implemented into Windows, Linux community can then rip out systemd and allow SysVInit, runit and other init systems to become modular across all of Linux again. If systemd gets purged in the process then all the better for choice in Linux.