Thanks to a new change, systemd will automatically kill a user’s processes when that user logs out. Previously, it was possible to start long-running processes that remained running, even when you ...

After the cacaphony erupted over my columns in August and September, I thought I might take a break from the systemd wars for a while, but the battles I’ve seen in forums across the Internet seem to ...

It’s a small change to a single software project, but systemd manages services and system settings for the vast majority of the big Linux distributions, including but not limited to Debian, Fedora, ...

With Systemd version 251, the role of Package Manager could radically shift, reducing the flexibility it offered to users and allowing more control in the hands of Linux distro makers. The Systemd ...

The community of open source software developers behind the Fedora Linux distribution announced this week the release of version 15. The update brings an overhauled desktop user interface and a number ...

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.

Fedora Linux 44 has arrived – in multiple formats and for several CPU families, including some new container formats and ...

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 ...

Security experts are warning of a bug that could allow hackers to craft TCP packets that fool Linux's initialization deamon systemd, which could cause systems to crash or make them run malicious code.

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 ...