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Spelling

Per the official documentation, the spelling is with all lowercase characters as "systemd" unless it starts a sentence, then "Systemd" is okay:

Yes, it is written systemd, not system D or System D, or even SystemD. And it isn't system d either. Why? Because it's a system daemon, and under Unix/Linux those are in lower case, and get suffixed with a lower case d. And since systemd manages the system, it's called systemd. It's that simple. But then again, if all that appears too simple to you, call it (but never spell it!) System Five Hundred since D is the roman numeral for 500 (this also clarifies the relation to System V, right?). The only situation where we find it OK to use an uppercase letter in the name (but don't like it either) is if you start a sentence with systemd. On high holidays you may also spell it sÿstëmd. But then again, Système D is not an acceptable spelling and something completely different (though kinda fitting).

Keep an eye out as you're making your edits.

atoponce (talk) 17:25, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

System Five Hundred is a nice pun on System Five (V - Roman numeral for 5). 81.89.66.133 (talk) 10:15, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Criticism of Systemd

Criticism of Systemd was based on it not respecting the Unix philosophy (Doing one thing, doing it right) and of Red Hat contracting for NSA for undisclosed matters.

Hierarchy of configuration files

The pre block in this section is garbled on narrow screens e.g. mobile devices and is thus incomprehensible. Hairy Dude (talk) 02:58, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I deleted the section. Dexxor (talk) 07:39, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

List Linuxes Which Are Systemd Free

Whilst I am not that interested, I chose PCLinuxOS for many old-fashioned reasons and not having Systemd was a bonus.

There were a number of suggestions in the Archive that it would be helpful to list those without this feature, and I would suggest this be done as soon as possible to help people who want a distro they prefer.

Claverhouse (talk) 14:54, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No. This article is for describing systemd, not listing everything that isn't systemd. 2.217.107.184 (talk) 13:29, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]