SNCA:Systemd

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Systemd
Software suite
Founded	March 30 2010; 15 years ago
Creator	Lennart Poettering
Homepage	https://systemd.io/

Systemd, also known as Soystemd (no one says that doe) is a software suite for system and service management on Linux. Its most notable component is an Init - the first process started during the system's boot. It also offers replacements for background processes (daemons).

As of 2015, all distributions began using Systemd as it was AND STILL IS the only good Init.

History

Systemd began development around 2009-2010, announced by Lennart Poettering and Kay Sievers as a faster, parallel Init replacement. Fedora picked it up early. Around this time, linuxbros began looking for solutions to make boot time faster and clean up service handling.

In 2012, Arch Linux picked up Systemd and made it the default, switching from SysVinit, giving users the opportunity to test it out. The developers of Systemd concluded it was faster, more memory-efficent, and with more features than SysVinit, and decided that SysVinit wasn't worth keeping maintained.

In 2013 Fedora made Systemd the default, making it mainstream. This move showed that Systemd could maintain a major distribution's daily work. Service management, crash isolation, and parallel startup became widely noticed, and many projects began using Systemd as the default Init, and also began writing native unit files instead of relying on old scripts.

Between 2014 and 2015, Debian recognized Systemd, and decided to make it the default, too, with the release of Debian 8. In 2015, Systemd started providing a login shell.

From 2016-2018 Systemd improved by a lot. Better boot diagnostics^🗝️ were introduced, and CGroup management got simpler. Systemd became adopted by a majority of distributions.

In the present, Systemd is widely used and is the backbone of all Linux distros.

Alternatives

There are only two alternatives to Systemd, those being OpenRC and RunIt. Those being used by distros that don't use Systemd by default (Artix, Void Linux).

Optionally, you can make your own Init scripts from scratch if you're an autistic tranny fuck.