One of the topics I teach is the way sysv init works. In recent years however, more and more distributions are switching from sysv init to an alternative like upstart or systemd. Many of my students ...
I'm a newbie trying to write a SysV init script for ipfm in RedHat 9. Looking at all the RedHat-installed scripts for services such as httpd and sshd, it appears that RedHat has the scripts written in ...
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 ...
Despite recent reports suggesting the contrary, Linux Mint isn’t committed to avoiding systemd, the controversial project taking Linux by storm. In fact, Clement Lefebvre, Linux Mint’s project leader, ...
The choices open to the panel are the existing SysV init system, the Red Hat creation systemd, the Canonical system upstart, and OpenRC. In December, two members of the technical committee made their ...