Get the inside scoop on services and daemons.

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.

Linux, the powerhouse behind countless servers and desktops worldwide, relies heavily on an initialization (init) system to bootstrap user space and manage system processes after booting.

Require? No. But practically unless you're going to write your own agent to interpret the metadata you'll probably want to use it. Broad strokes, you can: - use cloud ...