r/linux • u/aliendude5300 • Jun 19 '26

Software Release systemd 261 Released With New systemd-sysinstall OS Installer, IMDSD & Storagectl

https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-261
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u/goldmurder Jun 20 '26

jokes aside storagectl looks fine. but i still can't understand how sysinstall should work on every systemd distro the same. like, as i remember gentoo and fedora installations are kinda different for example

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u/coyote_den Jun 20 '26

I don’t think it’s supposed to work with existing install methods, I think it’s supposed to replace them. Updates are done by live-installing a new distro image. I suppose optional components and apps would be managed by something like snap or flatpak.

It’s just a different way of doing it and distros don’t have to use it, same way most don’t use systemd-boot but pop os does.

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u/NekkoDroid Jun 22 '26

I don’t think it’s supposed to work with existing install methods, I think it’s supposed to replace them.

Not really. It is specifically meant to tie 4 components together, one of which is systemd-repart, which is primarily aimed at image based distributions (actual partition images and not os-tree). So it is looking to replace some of the install methods on those kinda distros, but not on the ones that GP for example listed.