ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (March 3, 2015) -- Turn on a new computer for the first time and you are met with a few questions before the computer is registered and recognized. In Army command posts, ...

The screenful of INIT warnings came about because the mgetty process wouldn’t start. As a result, init was continually trying to respawn the process. Determining why the mgetty process might be ...

Linux, an immensely powerful and versatile operating system, sits at the heart of countless applications, from tiny embedded devices to massive servers. A pivotal aspect for any user, whether a ...

Supporting systemd required changes to the WSL architecture. As systemd requires PID 1, the WSL init process started within the Linux distribution becomes a child process of the systemd. Because the ...

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 ...