In recent years however, more and more distributions are switching from sysv init to an alternative like upstart or systemd. Many of my students have no or very little previous experience using Linux, ...

my home servers reboot once a month, on the first via cron and did so early this morning. i went to renew my kerberos ticket and both kadmin and krb5kdc services were not running. logs show that both ...

When Linux users get into arguments about init systems, the conversation usually circles back to systemd. systemd came out of a time when the Linux ecosystem was experimenting a lot, as distros ...

One of the most crucial pieces of any UNIX-like operating system is the init dæmon process. In Linux, this process is started by the kernel, and it's the first userspace process to spawn and the last ...

Systemd is one of the most controversial projects in Linux-land right now. How controversial? So controversial that Lennart Poettering, one of systemd’s developers, even claims that horrible people ...

Despite recent reports suggesting the contrary, Linux Mint isn’t committed to avoiding systemd, the controversial project taking Linux by storm. In fact, Clement Lefebvre, Linux Mint’s project leader, ...