Obarun is a Linux distro based on Arch, offering a lightweight alternative to systemd with its init system. Obarun uses the 66 utility as a front-end to the s6 process management library, providing ...

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 ...

I would briefly do simple BSD init as an intro to SysV init, explaining why System V works better with automation and is more flexible. Then I would cover the weaknesses of SysV init and mention that ...

The new version 13.0 of Linux From Scratch brings current toolchain components and will exclusively focus on systemd in the future.

Since its first version, originally called "Babykit" by Kay Sievers and Lennart Poettering after the Linux Plumbers Conference 2009, Systemd has become one of the more important projects around Linux.