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What exactly does systemd do?
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Linux is based on unix, which was an operating system designed to run on computers like the PDP-11 of the 1970s.
The problem is that computers have changed a lot, and Richie and Thompson couldn't perfectly forecast all those changes. Most notably, it predates the internet.
Anyways, computers changed and so systemd was invented to copy MacOS Tiger's launchd service model. Here's the only video you need to watch on the subject
systemd was invented because Upstart fell under Canonical's CLA
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