A plague of daemons and the Unix Philosophy

[Tom Buskey]

On Nov 10, 2007 11:00 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Okay, so I installed Fedora 8 today.
>
>  As is my custom, I turned off the various and sundry magic daemons
> that Fedora's been shipping for years and years.  These are daemons
> which do various magic things, like detect my hardware, mount my
> disks, and so on.
>
>  I've never liked those things.  They're over-complicated.  They
> suffer from high coupling and low cohesion.  They re-invent wheels
> that have existed for years or decades, to no apparent gain.  They're
> poorly documented.  They do not grok The Unix Philosophy.


Is there a list of what each daemon does?

I've gotten in the habit, sadly, of disabling most daemons so I can have the
memory and cpu percentage back.  For example, inetd is generally not
needed.  I don't use mDNS/Bonjour/uPNP devices on my network.  Etc.

There are a number of sites with information on windows services as well.
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