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.

I'm a newbie trying to write a SysV init script for ipfm in RedHat 9. Looking at all the RedHat-installed scripts for services such as httpd and sshd, it appears that RedHat has the scripts written in ...

Linux, the powerhouse behind countless servers and desktops worldwide, relies heavily on an initialization (init) system to bootstrap user space and manage system processes after booting.

The name is also a play on words with System D, a reference to the French dérouillard (to untangle) or démerder. System D is a manner of responding to challenges that requires fast thinking, adapting, ...