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What's even better than Rust in the Linux kernel? Rust in systemd!

Everyone's favorite Unix init system is adding support for the Unix world's favorite new programming language. What's the worst that could happen?

Don't worry, this isn't here just yet. Agent P and his trusty team released systemd version 262 about a month ago. That means that systemd 263 is now under construction, and developer Christian Brauner announced on Mastodon that his new feature has been merged.

The previous effort, which was pull request #44144, has now been split into five separate parts. Part 1 contains keyring-util and voa-util , described as "helpers for enrolling certificates into kernel keyrings." Part 2, support programs written in Rust , is the banner item.…