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What exactly does systemd do?
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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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This is a good post.
For people new to Linux I just want to point out - for better or for worse this goes against the Unix philosophy.
One thing that people miss - either out of ignorance, or because it goes against the narrative - is that systemd is modular.
One part handles init and services (and related things like mounts and sockets, because it makes sense to do that), one handles user sessions (logind), one handles logging (journald), one handles networking (networkd) etc etc.
You don't have to use networkd, or their efi bootloader, or their kernel install tool, or the other hostname/name resolution/userdb/tmpfiles etc etc tools.
Could one argue that a monolithic kernel such as the Linux kernel also goes against that principle?
Technically the Linux kernel is just an interface with lots of modules
So is systemd. It is definitely modular and I think it has multiple interfaces as well. I’m not sure if you have configure systemd modules like GRUB does.