About the Systemd
January 18, 2025 · 2 min read
It has been a long time since the linux used init to manage the startup process, such as sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start or service apache2 start, but the init is serial. To address this issue, the systemd was born. The d is the abbreviation of daemon, which means the systemd is a daemon manager. The systemd substitutes the initd and becomes the default main process PID 1.
