hope not tied to SystemD

Posted Aug 16, 2025 10:45 UTC (Sat) by nadir (subscriber, #154506)
In reply to: hope not tied to SystemD by bluca
Parent article: Finding a successor to the FHS

Always a chance somebody is genuinely clueless, but I agree. Its use is nearly always an indicator that the user has also anti-"woke" views, loves xlibre, hates wayland for non-technical reasons, wants his software projects free of "politics", etc. etc.

hope not tied to SystemD

Posted Aug 16, 2025 12:00 UTC (Sat) by wtarreau (subscriber, #51152) [Link] (3 responses)

OK, strange, never noticed this. I find it strange that people would just use capitalization of a name which could look like the expected one as a sign to manifest anything, but be it. At least I'm sure it's not the case for the ones I've seen write it like this.

hope not tied to SystemD

Posted Aug 16, 2025 13:24 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

As the systemd people point out, it follows standard unix convention in that the first bit points out what it does (and is in lower case because all system routines are in lower case), and it has a d tacked on the end to indicate it's a daemon.

So in standard unix nomenclature, systemd is the daemon that manages the system. And like all such daemons, it's lower case.

Cheers,
Wol

hope not tied to SystemD

Posted Aug 16, 2025 21:10 UTC (Sat) by SLi (subscriber, #53131) [Link]

Wait. Daemons? Or their filenames? This feels like something where there is a distinction.

While calling it SystemD is obviously just clueless and wrong because that's not its name in any meaning, I don't think this fundamentally collapses the way you propose. For example, we have the thing that is named the Apache HTTP Server, often Apache in brief, which has a binary named httpd. Even if it had decided to call its binary "apached", that wouldn't mean that the software's or project's name is "apached". I think it's useful to think there's a layer of indirection between project names and filenames. Apache is not even the only httpd...

hope not tied to SystemD

Posted Aug 17, 2025 9:14 UTC (Sun) by jem (subscriber, #24231) [Link]

The recommended spelling of systemd was documented by Lennart Poettering very early on. I suspect people on average are well aware of the recommendarion, but use SystemD in spite. I have noticed a strong correlation between expressing an extreme dislike for systemd and using the form SystemD.