It’s official: Ubuntu is the latest Linux distribution to switch to systemd. After a civil war in Debian that spawned a fork named Devuan, Ubuntu has now flipped the switch. Ubuntu announced plans to ...

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.

On most Linux devices, you can run "systemctl --type=service --state=running" to see running services. Get detailed information about a service, SSH for example, with the command "systemctl status ...

Pull fresh Unsplash wallpapers and rotate them on GNOME automatically with a Python script plus a systemd service and timer.

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 ...

Shuttleworth says Ubuntu will switch to systemd Sam Varghese Sam Varghese has been writing for iTWire since 2006, a year after the site came into existence. For nearly a decade thereafter, he wrote ...

Ubuntu fixed a Linux bug that could have let an attacker cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with a TCP payload this week. Developers with Canonical pushed out a handful of patches for ...

How to list Linux services with systemctl for easier troubleshooting Your email has been sent Linux is an incredibly powerful system with GUI and command-line tools to meet nearly any need. Once upon ...