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 ...

On April 23, 2015, Ubuntu version 15.04 (code-named Vivid Vervet) was released. This is an important release, although superficially it looks much the same as the previous version. The real difference ...

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 ...

A lot of embedded systems are running Linux on platforms like Raspberry Pi. Since Linux is fully functional from a command line and fully network-capable, it is possible to run servers that you’ve ...