systemd's logo is a green [OK] from the boot screen

Systemd is a suite of basic building blocks

systemd has unveiled its official brand identity, and the logo draws directly from the most recognizable moment of a Linux boot: the green [OK] that signals a service started successfully. Designed by Tobias Bernard of GNOME in 2019, the mark abstracts those brackets into a symbol of services running inside systemd. The brand also settles a long-standing question: it's systemd, lowercase, because it's a system daemon.

Yes, it is written systemd, not system D or System D, or even SystemD.
  1. mxuribe

    This should be renamed to "Branding about..."...Because that seems to be the focus on this destination webpage...and not content specific to the underlying tech of systemd.

  2. tosti

    I can recommend the book "Savaged by Systemd"

    It's on AA

  3. badatnames

    Where "basic" follows a highly nuanced alternate definition, where if you step out of line without realising it, you lose 3 days debugging a complex undocumented interaction between 4 enterprise crapware daemons only to find out the answer is "you're wrong and won't fix" buried in a 6 year old bug report, when all you did was plug in a USB mouse or try to set the default audio output device, or something else.

    Total and utter propaganda, it's underdeveloped steaming garbage

  4. 0xbadcafebee

    "Building blocks" makes it sound like things you can use to build other things. In reality it's more of an octopus, or a fungus.

  5. seany

    We had reasonable building blocks before systemd...

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