The Linux distribution KaOS 2026.02, released last week, brings a remarkable change: it is dropping support for KDE Plasma.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a small change to a single software project, but systemd manages services and system settings for the vast majority of the big Linux distributions, including but not limited to Debian, Fedora, ...

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.