systemd ☆
« Back to VersTracker
Description:
System and service manager
Type: Formula  |  Latest Version: 258.3@0  |  Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025
Links: Homepage  |  formulae.brew.sh
Category: System utilities
Tags: init-system service-manager linux systemd daemons
Install: brew install systemd
About:
systemd is a comprehensive suite of system management daemons, libraries, and utilities designed as a replacement for sysvinit. It provides aggressive parallelization during boot, tracks processes using cgroups, and includes features like socket and D-Bus activation for on-demand service startup. Its core value proposition is delivering a more efficient, reliable, and feature-rich initialization system for modern Linux environments.
Key Features:
  • Aggressive service parallelization for faster boot times
  • Process and resource tracking via Linux control groups (cgroups)
  • Socket and D-Bus activation for on-demand service startup
  • Comprehensive logging system with the journald daemon
  • System state management and transactional dependency logic
Use Cases:
  • Managing system services and dependencies on Linux servers
  • Debugging boot process issues and service failures
  • Containerizing system services with systemd-nspawn
Alternatives:
  • OpenRC – A dependency-based init system that is more modular and lightweight than systemd, commonly used in Gentoo and Alpine Linux.
  • launchd – The init system for macOS, focused on managing daemons, agents, and services with a similar goal of on-demand activation.
Version History
Detected Version Rev Change Commit
Dec 17, 2025 11:32pm 258.3 0 VERSION_BUMP 2ec3760f
Oct 13, 2025 5:40pm 0 VERSION_BUMP 699c5ec4
Sep 17, 2025 4:34pm 0 VERSION_BUMP 60babaaf
Sep 17, 2025 2:29pm 0 VERSION_BUMP 14d61775
Oct 10, 2024 12:42pm 0 VERSION_BUMP 503f1be4
« Back to VersTracker  |  Browse Packages  |  About