Systemd is a controversial init manager that also exposes a lot of other extra functionality. By 2015, most Linux distributions have switched to -- or are plannning to -- systemd as a replacement to SysVinit, Upstart, etc.

systemd Articles & Reviews

FreeBSD 12 Runs Refreshingly Easy On AMD Ryzen 9 3900X - Benchmarks Against Ubuntu 18.04 LTS   Operating Systems   2019-07-14
Void Linux, Solus, Manjaro, Antergos, Sabayon & Clear Linux Put To A Performance Battle   Computers   2018-11-19
Benchmarking Amazon Linux 2 LTS Candidate 2   Operating Systems   2018-04-12
Fedora 18 Systemd Boot Performance Is Mixed   Operating Systems   2013-01-23
Intel Releases 13 New Linux Benchmarks   Software   2013-01-18

systemd Linux & Open-Source News

systemd 257 Debuts With systemd-keyutil & systemd-sbsign Tools, Other Improvements   systemd   2024-12-10
GNU Shepherd 1.0 Service Manager Released As "Solid Tool" Alternative To systemd   Free Software   2024-12-09
Ubuntu 25.04 Planning To Use GCC 15 As Well As Exploring Greater LLVM Use   Ubuntu   2024-12-05
VTE-Based Linux Terminals Now Support A Nice Feature Led By Windows Terminal   Desktop   2024-12-04
Feature-Packed systemd 257 Nears Release With RC3 Availability   systemd   2024-11-27
systemd 257-rc2 Released With New systemd-keyutil Tool   systemd   2024-11-15
systemd 257-rc1 Released With A Ton Of New Features & Changes   systemd   2024-11-06
Manjaro Linux Working On "Manjaro Data Donor" As New Data Collection Tool   Operating Systems   2024-11-04
Miriway 24.10 Compositor Adds systemd Integration, DE-Specific Configurations   Wayland   2024-11-01
SysVinit 3.11 Released With An "Important Feature" At Long Last   Free Software   2024-10-21
Ubuntu 24.10 Now Available With Linux 6.11, GCC 14 & Other Upgrades   Ubuntu   2024-10-10
Granite Rapids, AmpereOne & PREEMPT_RT Landing Made For An Exciting September   Phoronix   2024-10-01
Busd Taking Shape As A D-Bus Broker Written In Rust   systemd   2024-10-01
Systemd Looking At A Future With More Varlink & Less D-Bus For IPC   systemd   2024-09-28
FUSE In Linux 6.12 Adds Idmapped Mounts & Writeback Optimization   Linux Storage   2024-09-28
Bcachefs Hopes To Remove "EXPERIMENTAL" Flag In The Next Year   Linux Storage   2024-09-22
Valve's Proton 9.0-3 Brings Support For More Games On Linux, Many Fixes   Valve   2024-09-19
GNOME Continues Hashing Out Individual Home Directory Encryption, Modernizing Platform   GNOME   2024-09-13
Mir-based Miracle-WM Adds Optional Systemd Integration   Wayland   2024-09-09
FUSE Adding IDMAPPED Mounts Support In Linux 6.12   Linux Storage   2024-09-08
Power Profiles Daemon 0.22 Released With Several AMD Improvements   Hardware   2024-09-03
Canonical's Netplan 1.1 Improves Compatibility With Proton VPN & Microsoft's Azure Linux   Free Software   2024-08-15
GNOME Continues Working On systemd-homed Integration, Better Web Browser   GNOME   2024-08-10
GNOME Shell 47 Beta Brings Hardware Encoding When Screen Recording & More   GNOME   2024-08-04
Limine 8.0 Bootloader Released With LoongArch Support   Free Software   2024-08-03
Microsoft Promotes Azure Linux 3.0 To General Availability   Microsoft   2024-08-01
SysVinit 3.10 Released With Better Interoperability For systemd's "machinectl stop"   Free Software   2024-07-29
TigerVNC 1.14 Allows OpenGL & Vulkan Hardware Acceleration   Free Software   2024-07-29
systemd Talks Up Automatic Boot Assessment In Light Of The Crowdstrike-Microsoft Outage   systemd   2024-07-22
Hyperscalers Begin Working On CentOS Stream Hyperscale 10   Operating Systems   2024-07-09
Linux 6.11 To Offer More Fine-Tuned Control Over Swappiness   Linux Kernel   2024-07-05
OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 RC Switches To KDE Plasma 6, Packages Proton   Operating Systems   2024-07-04
Microsoft Releases New Azure Linux 3.0 Preview   Microsoft   2024-07-03
Linux BSOD, NVIDIA Linux Excitement, Intel Sierra Forest & Other June Highlights   Phoronix   2024-07-01
Systemd 256.1 Fixes "systemd-tmpfiles" Unexpectedly Deleting Your /home Directory   systemd   2024-06-19
Sovereign Tech Fund Opens Up To Smaller Investments & Updated Criteria   Free Software   2024-06-17
systemd 256 Released With run0, systemd-vpick, importctl & Other New Features   systemd   2024-06-11
Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0 Preview   Microsoft   2024-06-06
Fedora Moves Ahead In Replacing Redis With Valkey   Fedora   2024-06-04
Debian Seeing Work To Support systemd-boot   Debian   2024-06-03
NVIDIA Open Kernel Driver News, AMD EPYC 4004 & Linux 6.10 Made For A Fun May   Phoronix   2024-06-01
Nouveau DRM_Panic Being Worked On For Linux "Blue Screen Of Death" Type Situations   Nouveau   2024-05-26
Btrfs Sends In Fixes For Linux 6.10 & Restores "norecovery" Mount Option   Linux Storage   2024-05-24
systemd 256 Nears Release With run0, systemd-vpick, importctl & More   systemd   2024-05-22
GNOME OS Working On A New Installer & Other Enhancements To Make It More Practical   GNOME   2024-05-18
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg   Multimedia   2024-05-16
systemd 256-rc2 Released With A Few More Features   systemd   2024-05-14
Zone Write Plugging Comes To Linux 6.10 For Better Performance   Linux Storage   2024-05-14
XZ Backdoor, Nova Driver, Linux 6.9 Features & Ubuntu 24.04 Made For An Exciting April   Phoronix   2024-05-01
systemd Rolling Out "run0" As sudo Alternative   systemd   2024-04-30
Systemd 256-rc1 Brings A Huge Number Of New Features   systemd   2024-04-25
Sovereign Tech Fund Makes New Investments Into GNOME & PHP, Bug Bounty For systemd   Free Software   2024-04-25
GNOME Working To Make Key Rack A Viable Password Manager, Better Printing For Flatpaks   GNOME   2024-04-20
Linux 6.10 Preps A Kernel Panic Screen - Sort Of A "Blue Screen of Death"   Linux Kernel   2024-04-19
SDL 3.0 Will Now Prefer PipeWire Over PulseAudio   Linux Gaming   2024-04-12
Gentoo Linux Now An SPI Project   Operating Systems   2024-04-10
Microsoft Rolls Out Azure Linux 2.0.20240403 With Security Fixes & Other Patches   Hardware   2024-04-10
Debian Policy 4.7 Outlines Latest Packaging/System Guidelines   Debian   2024-04-07
GNOME Improving Integration With systemd-homed, Mockups For An OS Installer   GNOME   2024-04-06
New EEVDF Linux Scheduler Patches Make It Functionally "Complete"   Linux Kernel   2024-04-05
Netplan 1.0 Is Ready To Go For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS   Ubuntu   2024-04-04
UPower Power Profiles Daemon v0.21 Automatically Adapts For Linux Laptop Battery Use   Hardware   2024-04-04
Drop-In CUDA On AMD, Kernel Discussions, NGINX Fork & Other Q1 Highlights   Phoronix   2024-04-01
Microsoft Helping Out In Making The Linux Kernel Language More Inclusive   Microsoft   2024-03-30
KDE Plasma 6 Refinements Continue, Fixes 3+ Important Crashes This Week   KDE   2024-03-30
XZ Struck By Malicious Code That Could Allow Unauthorized Remote System Access   Linux Security   2024-03-29
SysVinit 3.09 Now Allows Building With musl C Library, Passing Boot Messages To Firmware   Free Software   2024-03-25
GNOME 46 Released With Improved Search, Experimental VRR & More Polish   GNOME   2024-03-20
Many Networking Improvements & New Wired/Wireless Devices For Linux 6.9   Linux Networking   2024-03-12
Niri 0.1.3 Wayland Compositor Brings Touch Support, New Animations   Wayland   2024-03-10
GNOME 46 Release Candidate Rolls Out Last Minute Fixes, VRR & Other Refinements   GNOME   2024-03-09
UWSM Aims To Be A Universal Wayland Session Manager   Wayland   2024-03-06
openSUSE Tumbleweed Is Finding Success Moving From GRUB To systemd-boot   SUSE   2024-03-05
Serpent OS Makes Progress On Packaging The GNOME 45 Desktop   Operating Systems   2024-02-29
Distrobox 1.7 Improves NVIDIA GPU Support, Better Wolfi Containers   Operating Systems   2024-02-29
GNOME Makes Progress On GPU-Accelerated Screencasting, systemd-homed Home Encryption   GNOME   2024-02-25
RHEL's Source Code Access Change Is Causing Issues For CentOS SIGs   Red Hat   2024-01-29
Arch Linux Will Now Use Dbus-Broker As Its Default D-Bus Daemon   Arch Linux   2024-01-09
Fedora 40 Moving Ahead In Beefing Up Its Security   Fedora   2024-01-04
systemd In 2023 Added Windows-Inspired "Blue Screen Of Death" & macOS-Inspired T.D.M.   systemd   2024-01-02
Intel Meteor Lake, Emerald Rapids & Other Popular Topics For December   Phoronix   2024-01-01
Fedora 40 Looks To Provide Optimized x86_64 Binaries For Different HWCAPs   Fedora   2023-12-30
openSUSE Tumbleweed Trying Out systemd-boot & systemd Full Disk Encryption   SUSE   2023-12-21
Fedora 40's Linker Will Now Error Out On Security Issues   Fedora   2023-12-15
Fedora 40 To Apply Systemd Security Hardening   Fedora   2023-12-14
Dbus-Broker 34 Released For High Performance D-Bus Message Broker   Free Software   2023-12-14
Red Hat Looks For Feedback On Its New Initoverlayfs File-System Proposal   Linux Storage   2023-12-12
systemd 255 Released With A "Blue Screen of Death" For Linux Systems   systemd   2023-12-06
Threadripper 7000 Series, Wayland, Linux 6.7 & Other November Highlights   Phoronix   2023-12-01
GNOME's €1M Funding Is Help Advance Work On systemd-homed Home Encryption   GNOME   2023-11-25
Archinstall 2.7 Brings Unified Kernel Image Support To The Arch Linux Installer   Arch Linux   2023-11-23
Distrobox 1.6 Released For Easily Launching New Distros Within Your Terminal   Virtualization   2023-11-20
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing Fully To Netplan For Network Configuration   Ubuntu   2023-11-14
Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Linux Distro Issues A Big Update For November   Microsoft   2023-11-08
systemd 255-rc1 Brings "Blue Screen of Death" Support & New Tool To Spawn VMs   systemd   2023-11-06
Systemd Working On "Storage Target Mode" Feature - Inspired By Apple macOS   systemd   2023-10-31
GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support   GNOME   2023-10-09
KDE Plasma 6.0 Ends September With Many New Features & Enhancements   KDE   2023-09-30
openSUSE Tumbleweed Adds systemd-boot Support   SUSE   2023-09-29
Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community   Valve   2023-09-22
systemd's All Systems Go Conference Returns Next Week   systemd   2023-09-06
KDE Plasma 6 & KWin See More Performance Tuning This Week   KDE   2023-09-02
Linux From Scratch 12.0 Published For Rolling Your Own Linux Build   Operating Systems   2023-09-01
GNU Coreutils 9.4 Adds Experimental "--enable-systemd" Option, Faster Split   GNU   2023-08-29
ClamAV 1.2 Now Extracts UDF Partitions, New systemd Timer   Free Software   2023-08-29
SysVinit 3.08 Released With A Couple Patches   Free Software   2023-08-18
Devuan 5.0 Released For Debian 12 Without systemd   Debian   2023-08-15
ClamAV 1.2 Adding Support For UDF Partitions, New systemd Timer   Free Software   2023-08-04
Linux 6.6's cpupower Utility Enables New AMD P-State Features   AMD   2023-08-01
Archinstall 2.6 Released For Latest Easy-To-Use Arch Linux Installer   Arch Linux   2023-07-31
systemd 254 With New Soft Reboots Feature, systemd-battery-check   systemd   2023-07-28
Fedora Looking To Better Alert Server Administrators Around Firmware Updates   Fedora   2023-07-22
Microsoft's CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230630 Ships Security Fixes, Adds In Some Extra Bits   Microsoft   2023-07-18
GNU Shepherd 0.10.2 Service Manager Fixes Some Long-Standing Issues   GNU   2023-07-18
Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 2.6 Preparing New Features   Arch Linux   2023-07-17
systemd 254-rc2 Brings A Few More Changes   systemd   2023-07-15
systemd 254-rc1 Deprecates SysV Scripts, Adds Soft Reboots & systemd-battery-check   systemd   2023-07-06
Fedora Workstation 40 Considering To Implement Privacy-Preserving Telemetry   Fedora   2023-07-06
Fedora May Make It Easier To Switch To systemd-boot, Making A GRUB-Free System   Fedora   2023-06-22
Microsoft Aims For Greater Script Execution Control On Linux   Linux Security   2023-05-13
Fwupd 1.8.15 Released With Support For Updating More Device Firmware Under Linux   LVFS   2023-05-12
Ubuntu 23.10 Looks To dhcpcd5 For Replacing ISC DHCP Client   Ubuntu   2023-05-11
Failing A PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD In Less Than 3 Minutes Without Extra Cooling   Hardware   2023-05-10
Fedora 39 Looks To Ship mkosi-initrd As A Modern Alternative To Dracut   Fedora   2023-05-08
CentOS Hyperscale SIG Now Has An Intel-Optimized Repository   Operating Systems   2023-04-04
Fedora Workstation Aiming To Improve Encryption, Possibly Encrypted Disk By Default In The Future   Fedora   2023-04-03
Arch Linux Installer v2.5.4 Adds Initial Swapfile Support   Arch Linux   2023-03-29
Ubuntu Touch OTA-1 Focal Released For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS On Smartphones   Ubuntu   2023-03-27
OpenMandriva ROME 23.03 Released With Linux 6.2 + KDE Plasma 5.27 Desktop   Operating Systems   2023-03-26
How Cloudflare Updates The BIOS & Firmware Across Thousands Of Servers   LVFS   2023-03-14
Linux 6.3 Adds Support For Tmpfs IDMAPPED Mounts - Benefits systemd, Kubernetes & More   Linux Storage   2023-02-24
Open Source Security Foundation's Criticality Score 2.0 Debuts To Rank Important OSS Projects   Linux Security   2023-02-24
systemd 253 Released With Ukify Tool, systemd-cryptenroll Unlocking Via FIDO2 Tokens   systemd   2023-02-15
Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Adds More Desktop Code, Enables WireGuard & Boots systemd-oomd   Microsoft   2023-02-15
systemd 253 Is Near With RC3 Out For Testing   systemd   2023-02-10
Gentoo Had A Busy 2022 With A Weekly LiveGUI ISO, Gpkg Binary Packages For Portage   Operating Systems   2023-02-10
A Non-GNU Linux Distribution Built With LLVM & BSD Software Aims For Alpha Next Month   Operating Systems   2023-02-06
Dbus-Broker 33 Released With Few Changes   Free Software   2023-02-03
systemd 253-rc2 Released With More Changes To This System & Service Manager   systemd   2023-02-02
Microsoft CBL-Mariner 2.0 Update Adds New PipeWire, Other Changes   Microsoft   2023-02-02
systemd 253 RC1 Released With New "ukify" Tool   systemd   2023-01-24
Fedora 38 Features Approved For Unified Kernel, mdadm BIOS RAID, Xfce 4.18   Fedora   2023-01-10
CentOS Hyperscale SIG Caps Off A Busy 2022   Red Hat   2023-01-10
Fedora 38 To Beef Up Its Compiler Fortification Defenses   Fedora   2023-01-04
AMD Zen 4, Apple Silicon, Intel Arc Graphics & More Excited Linux Users This Year   Phoronix   2022-12-30
systemd's Growth Over 2022   systemd   2022-12-28
Fedora 38 Wants To Make Sure Shutdowns & Reboots Are Faster   Fedora   2022-12-23
Fedora 38 Plots Path To Unified Kernel Support   Fedora   2022-12-20
Arch Linux Powered EndeavourOS "Cassini" Brings Desktop & Arm Improvements   Operating Systems   2022-12-19
SquashFS Gains Support For IDMAPPED Mounts With Linux 6.2   Linux Storage   2022-12-18