motto - "In God is our trust," And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the back end; thus a common, though somewhat self-contradictory, name for this part of the system. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux control groups, maintains mount and automount points, and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. Other parts include a logging daemon, utilities to control basic system configuration like