22-06-2026 03:48 via linux.slashdot.org

Someone Forked systemd Over Its New Birth Date Field

The blog Linuxiac reports:
A new systemd fork has appeared with a specific purpose: removing systemd's recently added support for storing a user's birth date in JSON user records.
The fork, called Liberated systemd, published its first tagged release as v261 shortly after the official systemd 261 release. In other words, the fork follows upstream systemd while reverting the change that added the new optional birthDate field.
Importantly, this is not a new init system, a wider redesign of systemd
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