Systemd

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How to replace cronjobs with systemd timer and what are benefits of it. » Anand Reddy Pandikunta | avilpage.com

Over the past decade, solid-state drives (SSD) have brought about a new way of managing storage. » Alan Formy-Duval | opensource.com

Es un programa que genera una inmensa polémica, del que se está oyendo hablar cada vez más y que es utilizado por la mayoría de distribuciones. Sus detractores son muchos, sin embargo es utilizado cada vez por más distribuciones Linux. Así que surgen las preguntas. ¿Porqué SystemD es tan malo? Y si es tan malo, ¿porqué cada vez más distribuciones lo están utilizando? » Amancio | lignux.com

One of the most crucial pieces of any UNIX-like operating system is the init dæmon process. In Linux, this process is started by the kernel, and it’s the first userspace process to spawn and the last one to die during shutdown. During the history of UNIX and Linux, many init systems have gained popularity and then faded away. In this article, I focus on the history of the init system as it relates to Linux, and I talk about the role of init in a modern Linux system. I also relate some of the history of the System V Init (SysV) scheme, which was the de facto standard for many Linux distributions for a long time. Then I cover a couple more modern approaches to system initialization, such as Upstart and systemd. Finally, I pay some attention to how things work in systemd, as this seems to be the popular choice at the moment for several of the largest distributions. ...

So, what is systemd? Well, meet your new God. You may have been praying at the alter of simplicity, but your religion is being deprecated. It likely already happened without your knowledge during an upgrade of your Linux box. systemd is the all knowing, all controlling meta-deity that sees all and supervises all. It’s the new One Master Process that aspires to control everything it can - and it’s already doing a lot. It’s what init would look like if it were a transformer on steroids. It’s complicated, multi-faceted, opaque, and supremely powerful. ...