Systemd

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

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.

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Image: Lennart Poettering, Kay Sievers and others (& all systemd contributors as of 2012-08-27), Commons user Smile4ever, LGPL, via Wikimedia Commons.