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Is it just me, or is Windows terminology creeping around?

Story: Shorten Linux Boot Time with ServicesTotal Replies: 12
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DrDubious

Jan 20, 2009
11:54 AM EST 		First directories became "Folders", and eventually the term slunk into Linux. Now daemons are becoming "services"?
ABCC

Jan 20, 2009
12:05 PM EST 		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.....
gus3

Jan 20, 2009
1:25 PM EST 		But it isn't "/etc/daemons", it's "/etc/services".
jdixon

Jan 20, 2009
1:32 PM EST 		It's not just you. :(
tuxchick

Jan 20, 2009
3:16 PM EST 		'services' is a Windows term? Dang.....
DrDubious

Jan 20, 2009
4:27 PM EST 		@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.
gus3

Jan 20, 2009
4:47 PM EST 		@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.
moopst

Jan 20, 2009
5:40 PM EST 		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
azerthoth

Jan 21, 2009
6:01 PM EST 		hmm, on all my systems it's /etc/init.d/
gus3

Jan 21, 2009
6:14 PM EST 		az, you're such a Debian fanboi...
azerthoth

Jan 21, 2009
6:47 PM EST 		Gentoo, tyvm :)
gus3

Jan 21, 2009
8:53 PM EST 		Eh, close enough. They're both pains to get up and running...

/ducks
techiem2

Jan 21, 2009
11:21 PM EST 		emerge -v hittheduck

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