Keeping pace with recent developments in open-sourced architecture, the instruction set architecture used in other Linux distributions and BSD systems. systemd使现代Linux内核的许多特色得以充分发挥。现在，要想支持systemd，内核版本必须高于ebuild 2.6.39。 在最新的版本 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources包中, 有一个快捷的方法，使得systemd成为强制选择或可选的内核选项(请看Kernel/Configuration 来获得进一步的了解): Init is typically assigned process identifier 1.