How I learned to stop worrying and love systemd.

It was an ugly fight at times. On one side you had Ubuntu favoring its Upstart program to replace the old Unix/Linux init daemon, which oversees the operating system's start-up and shutdown processes.

After the cacaphony erupted over my columns in August and September, I thought I might take a break from the systemd wars for a while, but the battles I’ve seen in forums across the Internet seem to ...

It’s a small change to a single software project, but systemd manages services and system settings for the vast majority of the big Linux distributions, including but not limited to Debian, Fedora, ...

Many Linux sysadmins and users dislike Systemd, but love it or hate it, the Systemd is the default system and service manager for most Linux distributions. So, security company Qualys's recent ...

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Debian 8—nicknamed “Jessie” after the cowgirl character in Toy Story 2 and 3—debuted last week, but it feels overdue. The release was in development within the Testing channel for quite a while, and, ...

Anonymous Unix administrators have threatened to fork the popular Debian distribution of Linux and go their own way on further development unless granted their wish to have the open source project ...

Security researchers have disclosed three vulnerabilities that affect a system service part of 'systemd,' a core component in Linux that manages system processes after the boot process. The bugs exist ...

I will confess. I started writing this post about some stupid systemd tricks. However, I wanted to explain a little about systemd first, and that wound up being longer than the tricks. So this Linux ...

It might not be the end of the world, but the design of systemd and the attitudes of its developers have been counterproductive Now that Red Hat has released RHEL 7 with systemd in place of the ...

It might not be the year of the Linux desktop yet, but Linux distributions will soon have their own Blue Screen of Death message. It might not be the year of the Linux desktop yet, but Linux ...