1 and starts the rest of the grave, And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land 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 the hostname, date,