Shorten Linux Boot Time with Services

First directories became "Folders", and eventually the term slunk into Linux. Now daemons are becoming "services"?

it gets worse, i've even encountered problems related to programs looking at a file extension rather than mime type to determine what type of file theyre opening.....

But it isn't "/etc/daemons", it's "/etc/services".

It's not just you. :(

'services' is a Windows term? Dang.....

@gus3 yes, there's an /etc/services that maps port numbers to names...but note that it's not "Berkely Internet Name Service" (and the actual executable isn't called "names"). Spamassassin runs "spamd", not "spams". The Common Unix Printing System is "cupsd" not "cupss"...etc.

I think it was Windows NT where they started referring to background processes like that as "services".

Next thing you know, using scp to transfer a file between mobile devices will start being called "squirting(tm)" and that will herald the End Of The World.

@DrD: No argument there. I'm just pointing out that both terms are used visibly in Unix/Linux, and it's probably been in Unix since before Windows NT.

I thought services was kind of linked to the microkernel architecture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microkernel

Quoting:Actual operating system services, such as device drivers, protocol stacks, file systems and user interface code are contained in user space

hmm, on all my systems it's /etc/init.d/

az, you're such a Debian fanboi...

Gentoo, tyvm :)

Eh, close enough. They're both pains to get up and running...

/ducks

emerge -v hittheduck