Jack Wallen walks you through everything you need to know about masked services in Linux. Have you ever gone to start or stop a service in Linux using the systemctl command only to see a warning such ...

If you serve as an admin over Linux systems, one tool that you’ll fall back on daily is systemctl. Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to list services with this command. Linux is an incredibly ...

Progeny Linux Systems has decided to stop developing its own version of the open-source operating system and instead focus on selling services, the company said Monday. The move completes a change in ...

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 ...

There's a Linux Systems Group at Microsoft that has developed a number of products -- some for customers and partners and others for internal use. One of this group's deliverables is an internal Linux ...

Would you believe Microsoft has announced a new Linux distribution service for its Azure cloud service? You should. For many years, the most popular operating system on Azure has not been Windows ...