Systemd is a software suite of daemons, libraries and administration utilities designed with the aim of centralizing the management and configuration of Unix-like operating systems. Systemd is generally used as init system to use to bootstrap user space during startup and manage user processes. It replaces the classic origin, which is the descending one from the Unix System V (SysVinit).[…]
Read moreGNOME is one of the most loved/hated desktop environment. Its history starts a long time ago and its community is incredibly big: GNOME is one of the most modern DE but due to features and poor optimization, it has often given the fast experience of lighter DEs like LXDE, Mate, or XFCE. Those DEs made the system much more responsive[…]
Read moreI was a Mac user in very difficult times, between the transition from Motorola microprocessors to Intel CPUs. I experienced the transition from traditional MacOS to the innovative MacOS X and I had a lot of fun as beta-tester for all the new technologies that the Unix world was bringing into the machines of the bitten apple. The moments of[…]
Read more‘Disco Dingo’ is the code name for Ubuntu 19.04, the next scheduled release for Canonical operating system. Following Ubuntu’s usual naming standard, the letter for the name of the upcoming release is the ‘D’, from here the nickname ‘Disco Dingo’. Ubuntu 19.04, a new release full of interesting news Canonical publishes new releases of Ubuntu on a regular cadence, enabling[…]
Read moreWhat moved Linus Torvalds to write a Unix-like kernel (taking a big head wash from Tanenbaum) at the time? The market in those times was, perhaps more than ever, a world full of successful operating systems and, probably, there was no space for another one. Certainly no one would have been imagined that Linux would become a power as it[…]
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