How to diagnose your slow-booting Linux PC in seconds - without spending a dime ...

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: ...

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 ...

The other ways Linux handled startup before everything converged.

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), ...

I have several Podman containers running via systemd services generated by 'podman generate systemd --new'. They work well, the unit files are easy to read and they are quite portable and easy to use, ...

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 ...

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 ...