Debian CD mounting issue [was: Re: [plug] Fedora Core 5 - Install]

[Gavin Chester]

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 15:53 +0800, Alastair Irvine wrote:
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> PS -- Linux doesn't have a "list of services".  AFAIK, under Linux a 
> service is just a generic name for a process that accepts local or 
> network connections; this differs from a daemon, which in most 
> cases is a process that performs its own work in the background.  
> However, there is no "standard" usage for these terms.

You are probably right in the strict/correct usage of the terminology,
but some distros may confuse users with their own use of terminology.  I
have grown used to Linux on different Redhat/Fedora flavours and they
always call daemons 'services'.  That is, superuser may see a list of
'services' using a gui and restart/stop any and configure which are to
start at bootup.  They _are_ daemons (eg, ntpd, etc) but called services
in this case.  In Fedora the gui can be invoked from a terminal by
entering "system-config-services".  Just FYI :-)

Gavin