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- Developers
- Greg Kroah-Hartman and Kay Sievers
- License
- GPLv2
- Operating system
- Linux
- Release
- November 2003; 22 years ago (2003-11)
- Repository
- github.com/systemd/systemd
- Stable release
- 261.2 / 23 July 2026; 32 days ago (23 July 2026)
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Overview
- Userspace User space and kernel space
- Devfs
- Linux kernel
- Devfsd
- Device nodes Device node
- User space
- Firmware
- Greg Kroah-Hartman
- Kay Sievers
- Dan Stekloff Dan Stekloff?action=edit&redlink=1
- Unix
- Kernel space
- Library Library (computing)
- Systemd
- Daemon Daemon (computing)
- Command-line utility
- Netlink
- Hotplug Hotplug (software)?action=edit&redlink=1
Rationale
- Operating system
- Kernel Kernel (operating system)
- Monolithic kernel
- Device drivers Device driver
- System calls System call
- Hotplug
Design
- Wireless networks Wireless network
- Setuid
- HAL HAL (software)
Operation
- Daemon Daemon (computer software)
- D-Bus
- IPC Inter-process communication
- Processes Process (computing)
- GNOME
- K Desktop Environment 3
- File browser
- USB flash drives USB flash drive
- SD cards Secure Digital
- Xfce
- Upower
- NetworkManager
History
- Linux 2.5 Linux kernel version history
- Uevent Uevent?action=edit&redlink=1
- Codebase
- Linus Torvalds
- Gentoo Linux
- Fork Fork (software development)
- Eudev
- Linux distribution
- Init
- OpenRC
- Upstart Upstart (software)
- Lennart Poettering
- Kdbus
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Important terminology
kernel device linux system daemon hal hardware devices systemd udevd new manager dev firmware interface software programs provides set user
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Udev | Developers | Greg Kroah-Hartman and Kay Sievers | 1.00 | infobox |
| Udev | License | GPLv2 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Udev | Operating system | Linux | 1.00 | infobox |
| Udev | Release | November 2003; 22 years ago (2003-11) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Udev | Repository | github.com/systemd/systemd | 1.00 | infobox |
| Udev | Stable release | 261.2 / 23 July 2026; 32 days ago (23 July 2026) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Udev | Type | Device node | 1.00 | infobox |
| Udev | Website | Official website | 1.00 | infobox |
| Udev | Written in | C | 1.00 | infobox |
| GNOME or K Desktop Environment 3 could start the file browser to browse the file systems of newly attached USB flash drives | instance of | desktops | 0.80 | text |
| SD cards.By the middle of 2011 HAL had been deprecated by most Linux distributions as well as by the KDE | instance of | desktops | 0.80 | text |
| GNOME | instance of | desktops | 0.80 | text |
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