# SystemD
*This article is part of the bloat and vomit inducing series*

SystemD (also known as SoystemD) is a bloated and predatory init system for [Linux](linux.md) made by [Micro$oft](microsoft.md)
employee Lennart Poettering (then working for RedHat) as a mean of bringing the *Embrace, Extend and Extinguish* and update culture movements into Linux.

A notable backdoor (thwarted) attempt in 2024 on liblzma was facilitated by a completely redundant SystemD dependency added by Debian maintainers to OpenSSH.
Had the backdoor attempt succeeded, it would have given full root access to millions of Linux servers.

## Distros without soystemd
- Artix Linux (basically Arch Linux without Systemd)
- Gentoo
- Devuan (fork of Debian)
- Slackware
- Linux From Scratch
- OpenWRT
- Guix
- ...

## See also
- [suckless view on systemd](https://suckless.org/sucks/systemd/)
- [Without Systemd](https://without-systemd.org/wiki/index_php/Main_Page/)
- [Laurent Bercot's (s6 creator) take on Systemd](https://skarnet.org/software/systemd.html)

## Alternatives
- s6
- runit
- OpenRC (from Gentoo)
- SysVinit
- BSD-style rc init systems
- [suckless sinit](https://core.suckless.org/sinit/)