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 ...

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.

Despite recent reports suggesting the contrary, Linux Mint isn’t committed to avoiding systemd, the controversial project taking Linux by storm. In fact, Clement Lefebvre, Linux Mint’s project leader, ...

Control services, read logs, profile boot time, and inspect crashes with these four built-in systemd tools.

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.