Ask HN: What does is the function of systemd? Seems topical. I don't know half the terminology in the wikipedia article, and, in light of recent events, it seems worthwhile to know. |
Ask HN: What does is the function of systemd? Seems topical. I don't know half the terminology in the wikipedia article, and, in light of recent events, it seems worthwhile to know. |
Init systems are traditionally the first thing that is executed when the kernel boots and passes control to userspace. They're responsible for starting all the services that are configured/enabled.
In addition to this "basic" functionality systemd has extras which allow it to handle dependencies, start services on-demand, and handle logging, etc.
Beyond that you'd be best reading the documentation on the systemd site - I've never used it, but the basics don't seem too hard to understand.