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.

i run rsyslog with relp, to push all logs into central logging servers and load the messages into a database. i have a bunch of servers configured to not log messages to /var/log/journal/* and forward ...

Lightweight virtual containers with PID 1. In this article, I demonstrate a method to build one Linux system within another using the latest utilities within the systemd suite of management tools. The ...

Along with new functionality, systemd is broadening its distro support even further, which will surely delight members of the wider Linux community.… Systemd v259-rc1 is the first preview release of ...

If you're not a Linux or Unix developer, you've never heard of systemd, the new Linux-specific system and service manager. In Linux developer circles, however, nothing else ticks off many programmers ...

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 ...