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 ...

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 ...

One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...