Systemd and the systemctl command play vital roles in most of today's Linux systems. This post explains commands for peering into some aspects of how they work.

Systemd, the popular but controversial Linux system and service manager, has three recently discovered security holes. Patches for them are already ready to go.

After Linux civil war, Ubuntu to adopt systemd After months of often bitter debate, Ubuntu will follow Debian in using systemd instead of its own Upstart for Linux start-up and shutdown routines.

Security researchers have disclosed three vulnerabilities that affect a system service part of 'systemd,' a core component in Linux that manages system processes after the boot process.

Security researcher Sebastian Krahmer has recently discovered that a previously known security flaw in the systemd project can be used for more than crashing a Linux distro but also to grant local ...

New systemd update will bring Windows’ infamous Blue Screen of Death to Linux Systemd is used by Debian, Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu, and many downstream distros.

Linux's systemd is a crucial feature, which is used by many distributions to bootstrap the user space and manage all subsequent processes. The program was created by Red Hat developers.

The initialization software systemd has now been integrated into most popular Linux distributions, including the latest versions of Ubuntu. But a change in systemd 230 alters the way Linux and ...

Jack Wallen walks you through everything you need to know about masked services in Linux.