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. The bugs exist ...

More than a few Linux distributions have pulled up their stakes in the decades old System V method of booting and quietly moved to a better way of booting. Better, faster, easier to maintain, and less ...

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 ...

Linux has changed. Originally inspired by Unix, there were certain well understood but not well enforced rules that everyone understood. Programs did small things and used pipes to communicate. X ...

The modular Grand Unified Bootloader in version 2.x is still the boot method used by the installers of most Linux systems. Support for a number of file systems, EFI, secure boot and multiboot make ...

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), ...