Systemd
systemd is a software suite for system and service management on Linux built to unify service configuration and behavior across Linux distributions. Its main component is an init system used to bootstrap user space and manage user processes. It also provides various daemons and utilities, including device management, login management, network connection management, and event logging. The name systemd adheres to the Unix convention of naming daemons by appending the letter d, and also plays on the French phrase Système D (a person's ability to quickly adapt and improvise in the face of problems
Key facts
- Software.name
- systemd
- Software.logo
- Systemd-logo.svg
- Software.logo_size
- 200px
- Software.logo alt
- systemd logo, showing green circle and reverse symbol enclosed by bracket
- Software.screenshot
- Systemd-on-fedora.svg
- Software.screenshot alt
- systemd on Fedora 17 showing multiple component startups
- Software.caption
- systemd startup on Fedora 17
- Software.author
- Lennart Poettering
- Software.developer
- Red Hat (Lennart Poettering, Kay Sievers, Harald Hoyer, Daniel Mack, Tom Gundersen, David Herrmann); 345 different authors in 2018 and 2,032 different authors in total
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating system
- Linux