8️⃣ Here's the 8th post highlighting key new features of the upcoming v259 release of systemd. #systemd259 #systemd

systemd-modules-load.sevice is an early-boot service that loads a list of kernel modules into the kernel that is configured via /etc/modules-load.d/ (and similar dirs under /usr/ + /run/ as usual). It's half a legacy feature, because nowadays kernel modules are generally auto-loaded based on "modalias" information they expose, which binds them to certain hardware vendor/product …

Let me be cheeky and preempt @pid_eins's systemd 259 posts:

In systemd 259, I'm making it possible to run commands that need privileges as your current user instead of as root. With "run0 --empower", you'll get a session as your current user in which you can do anything that root would be able to do, without actually being root.

This is very useful when you need to run something with privileges but still want all created files and directories to be owned by your current user.

#systemd259