<ul><li>The definition of an "online" system in the context of networking can vary depending on the services being used.</li><li>Ubuntu has created a specification to define what an "online" system should be for their distro, aiming to avoid delayed boot times.</li><li>Netplan, a unification layer for networking daemons in Ubuntu, has introduced functionality to tweak the behavior of systemd-networkd-wait-online.service.</li><li>Future work includes enhancements to NetworkManager-wait-online utility for better control over specific networking states.</li></ul>

Lukas Märdian: Waiting for a Linux system to be online

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