#SystemD

Killing Processes One of the features of systemd that is most controversial is the option to kill user processes when the user logs out. That initially killed screen/tmux/nohup processes too. In re…

NixOS 26.05 Yarara introduces systemd as the default Stage 1 initrd, drops x86_64-darwin support after this cycle, adds over 20,000 packages and updates GNOME to version 50 with GCC 15.…

A practical Linux guide to measuring boot time with systemd-analyze, reading blame vs critical-chain correctly, generating SVG boot charts, and fixing the right dependency instead of guessing.

I've prepared a guide to understand when my containers slow down. In this post, I'll explain...

SQLite and Concurrency: The Lockout Experienced at islistesi.com A few weeks ago, the...

From How-To Geek: How I use the Linux terminal without touching it: My secret to extreme automation

Boot failures can feel like a cosmic joke, but systemd’s journal is the evidence you need. 1️⃣...

A practical Linux guide to checking discard support, enabling weekly TRIM with systemd, running a safe one-shot trim, and knowing when not to use continuous discard.

A practical Linux guide to Podman auto-updates with Quadlet, including fully qualified images, health checks, sdnotify readiness, timer overrides, and safer rollback behavior.

From Dev RSS Feed: External GPU (eGPU) + NVIDIA Drivers on Linux: Solving the Display Manager Initialization Problem

A TUI application for managing systemd services. Contribute to matheus-git/systemd-manager-tui development by creating an account on GitHub.

Catch bad directives, missing binaries, and broken unit dependencies before `daemon-reload` with a practical `systemd-analyze verify` workflow.

Preconfigure hostname, locale, timezone, machine ID handling, and root access safely before first boot with systemd-firstboot.

For anyone eyeing RHCSA, RHCE, or any of the EX-series — the format is radically different from every cloud cert and most people show up unprepared. Sharing what bit me so you can avoid it. The format is "do the thing", not "pick the right answer".…

Use systemd-confext to ship portable, version-checked `/etc` overlays on Linux, with a safe testing workflow, practical examples, and clear rollback steps.

A practical Linux guide to `systemd-repart`, including first-boot root growth, adding `/var` declaratively, dry runs against disk images, and where `x-systemd.growfs` fits.