Systemd 260 delivers one of the changes that the developers have been promising for at least a few years – we reported that init script support was going back in 2023. According to the release notes: ...

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.

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 ...

Debian’s suffering a civil war, and it’s all because of systemd. A Debian systemd maintainer and others have resigned, a splinter group threatened to fork Debian if the controversial init system was ...

More than five years after the Debian GNU/Linux project voted to make systemd the default init system for its distribution, it has now decided, again by a vote, to also care about alternatives to the ...

AntiX 26 "Stephen Kapos" is the newly updated version of antiX, based on last year's Debian 13 "Trixie" release. There are a ...

If your Linux machine's boot is slow, try this tool. Systemd-analyze offers several options to help. Any systemd-supporting Linux machine will have these. Linux has a ton of handy tools that can help ...

PBIS Open is a software package that permits Linux machines to join Active Directory domains. When I updated from Utopic to Vivid (which I did because numerous things I needed were broken on Utopic), ...

Well, this might turn out to be a major mistake on my part. Look up the definition of quagmire, and you'll find something like this: 'an awkward, complex, or hazardous situation'. That is an excellent ...