PBIS Open is a software package that permits Linux machines to join Active Directory domains. When I updated from Utopic to Vivid (which I did because numerous things I needed were broken on Utopic), ...

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 ...

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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, ...

BSD support improves, FreeBSD eyes a desktop option, and the init wars refuse to die The latest KDE desktop environment is out. Among other things, it comes with a pledge that it won't require systemd ...

The latest version of systemd looks to be a big one, with substantial new functionality. More to love – right? Like it or not, systemd is the industry-standard init system these days. A new release is ...

Since its first version, originally called "Babykit" by Kay Sievers and Lennart Poettering after the Linux Plumbers Conference 2009, Systemd has become one of the more important projects around Linux.

Home directories have been a fundamental part on any Unixy system since day one. They’re such a basic element, we usually don’t give them much thought. And why ...