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October 3, 2018July 10, 2019

systemd – System and service manager in Linux

1.0 Introduction

systemd is the newer init system used in most Linux distributions since 2015. The first widely used init system was the System V init process, sysvinit. Ubuntu introduced the Upstart init system with Ubuntu 6.10 in 2006. Ubuntu fully migrated to systemd with Ubuntu 15.04 in 2015.… Read more

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