systemd / systemd
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System and service manager (init system) for Linux that starts, supervises, and manages system services and daemons.
Why you might care
It is the default init and service manager on most major Linux distributions, handling boot-time service startup, dependencies, logging, and sockets. Use it to understand or configure how Linux systems boot and run services, or to build a distribution around it.
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LanguageC
LicenseGPL-2.0
Created2015-03-25 (11y ago)
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- GitHub: github.com/systemd/systemd
- Homepage: https://systemd.io
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