systemd for Administrators, Part XVIAnd, yes, here's now the sixteenth installment of my ongoing series on systemd for Administrators: Gettys on Serial Consoles (and Elsewhere) TL;DR: To make use of a serial console, just use console=ttyS0 on the kernel command line, and systemd will automatically start a getty on it for you. While physical RS232 serial ports have become exotic in today's PCs they play an important role in modern se
