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systemd
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systemd (also known as soystemd) is a bloated and predatory init system for Linux made by Micro$oft 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
- Without Systemd
- Laurent Bercot's (s6 creator) take on systemd
- Broken by design: systemd
Alternatives
- s6
- runit
- OpenRC (from Gentoo)
- SysVinit
- BSD-style rc init systems
- suckless sinit