Security experts are warning of a bug that could allow hackers to craft TCP packets that fool Linux's initialization deamon systemd, which could cause systems to crash or make them run malicious code.

Many Linux sysadmins and users dislike Systemd, but love it or hate it, the Systemd is the default system and service manager for most Linux distributions. So, security company Qualys's recent ...

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 ...

MX Linux 23.6 is here, taking the baseline of Debian 12.10 and adding some selected tweaks and updates of its own.… MX Linux 23.6 appeared earlier this week. MX is based on Debian, and this version is ...

With Systemd version 251, the role of Package Manager could radically shift, reducing the flexibility it offered to users and allowing more control in the hands of Linux distro makers. The Systemd ...

Systemd is one of the most controversial projects in Linux-land right now. How controversial? So controversial that Lennart Poettering, one of systemd’s developers, even claims that horrible people ...

After the cacaphony erupted over my columns in August and September, I thought I might take a break from the systemd wars for a while, but the battles I’ve seen in forums across the Internet seem to ...

If your Linux machine's boot is slow, try this tool. Systemd-analyze offers several options to help. Any systemd-supporting Linux machine will have these. Linux has a ton of handy tools that can help ...

It might not be the year of the Linux desktop yet, but Linux distributions will soon have their own Blue Screen of Death message. It might not be the year of the Linux desktop yet, but Linux ...

Microsoft and Canonical have teamed up to add systemd support to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, allowing a larger number of compatible apps to be installed. systemd is a Linux software application ...