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 ...

Dislike systemd but occasionally need it for something? MX can help MX Linux 25.1 restores the ability to switch init systems ...

What is boot.init? boot.init is a Linux boot automation toolkit. It helps you define what should happen when the system boots, how services start, and how tasks run at startup. It bridges gaps between ...

On NixOS, we need to do some setup before executing systemd (e.g. create the /etc tree from the Nix store). On a system that doesn't use systemd in the initrd, we have a bash script as an init binary ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...