A daemon is a process that runs in the background and is waiting for a specific event to occur. Typical daemons are httpd of web server and sshd which provides SSH connection. When booting is ...

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, ...

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 ...

"ok... dumb question: is this really broken? does it need fixing? I get that init only starts/stops/restarts services... that's what it's supposed to do, no?" You've ...

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.