Introduction to the Systemd journal | Linux Today

Introduction to the Systemd journal

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Egidio Docile
Aug 13, 2020

Systemd is nowadays the init system adopted by almost all Linux distributions, from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Debian and Ubuntu. One of the things that made Systemd the target of a lot of critics is that it tries to be a lot more than a simple init system and tries to re-invent some Linux subsystems.

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Egidio Docile

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