Everyone's favorite Linux component has hit a milestone, while a fresh contender comes of age – with a touch of Lisp.… In news that is sure to delight the Linux world, version 257 of systemd has ...

Linux, the powerhouse behind countless servers and desktops worldwide, relies heavily on an initialization (init) system to bootstrap user space and manage system processes after booting.

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 ...

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.

Back in November, the leader of the Debian GNU/Linux Project, Lucas Nussbaum, asked the technical committee to take a decision on which init system should be the default for the forthcoming release, ...

A vast majority of Linux systems these days are using systemd – a suite of programs aimed at managing and interconnecting different parts of the system. Systemd started replacing the init process back ...