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Ubuntu's man pages say "all major Linux distributions have [saved a seed file across reboots] since 2000 at least": http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/
by cpeterso 7y ago
Ubuntu's man pages say "all major Linux distributions have [saved a seed file across reboots] since 2000 at least":
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man4/random.4.html http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man4/random.4.htm...
- wahern 7y agoLennart, posting as mezcalero, addresses that in the LWN discussion. TL;DR: systemd loads the seed too late in the boot process, which is a deliberate choice on their part.