By way of introduction, daemons are those processes that run in the background. say systemd, init and so many others.
Well, in this post I am not going to explain what daemons do, but rather what they are, because many they wrongly call them demons, when the truth is that they are quite the opposite. and is that how not to be confused when in English "Daemon" and "demon" sound exactly the same, /'di?.m?n/ as written by linguists in the international phonetic alphabet or "Diimon" as Spanish speakers would pronounce it.
The truth is that in English «daemon»Is an adaptation to the word« da? Μ ?? » whose translation into Spanish would be «demon"Or in plural" demones ". And it is that when we speak of demons, we speak of benevolent beings, half human and half gods, or as Plato defined them, an intermediate between mortals and immortals. In this sense, although it was never talked about; when we speak of demons, we could think of Hercules; a hybrid; son of Zeus, the strongest among the gods and Alcmena, the most beautiful among mortals.
So you know when we talk about systemd, init, uselessd or the forgotten Upstart, We speak of demons and not demons. about the forgotten Upstart, forgotten or not so forgotten because it is very present in Chromebooks and Ubuntu, although in the latter systemd will replace it in the near future.
The best explanation about "daemon" that I listen was by Elliot at Mr. Robot. On the third episode, called «eps1.3_da3m0ns.mp4» he talk about that.
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Great, I always wondered why the hell people usually use demon and I think that even in some manuals in Spanish the word demon appears instead of demon or simply daemon.
You deleted the comments where they showed you that your attempt at the article was wrong, what a shame linuxers give, they play so dirty.
And I suppose that you are also going to erase it.
I was already saying that this translation we did was a bit strange. Thanks for the information.
Did you delete the comments ??? How immature.
There will be no demons that can protect you from your own demons ...
Oh, Miguel, Miguel… you reminded me of King Joffrey Lanister, from Game of Thrones.
You should see a psychologist and treat that low tolerance for frustration.
The same thing happens with bookstores. As in English it is Library, they translate it literally to Library.
History
Daemon programs are called by this name on UNIX systems. In other systems there are similar processes such as MS-DOS TSRs or Windows services.
According to an investigation by Richard Steinberg, the word daemon was used in 1963 for the first time, in the area of computing, to refer to a process that made backups on tapes. This process was used in the MIT MAC project and in an IBM 7094.1 computer. This project was led by Fernando J. Corbató, who claims that it was based on James Maxwell's demon, this daemon was a kind of vigilante who resided in the middle of a container divided in two, full of molecules. The vigilante or daemon was in charge of allowing, depending on the speed of the molecule, that these passed from one side to the other. Computer daemons act very similar to Maxwell's daemon, as they perform actions based on behavior and some system conditions.2
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonio_%28inform%C3%A1tica%29
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I thought these things didn't happen in DesdeLinux and that they were more worthy of pages full of dirt like Genbeta or Hipertextual. It would have been more dignified to delete the entire article than to eliminate the comments of those who were wrong. What a disappointment I have had with this site, goodbye and see you never.
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I guess what you mean is that you can say it in English and not in Spanish?
because according to the RAE: "The word demones is not registered in the Dictionary"
It is an Anglicism without more, and indeed its meaning in Spanish is demons (or being paranormal).
He argued so much for what in Christian terms is simply called "service." Bah.
From what I understand, and also from what is read in this article, the most appropriate translation and the best known object in our language is "Guardian Angel", something very different from "Demon", in addition, English dictionaries usually translate thus the word Daemon, now the macmillandictionary tells us the following: "DAEMON = a spirit in ancient Greek stories that is less important than a god or that protects a particular person or place". Which makes it more appropriate to call it "Guardian Angel."
No demons or angels, daemon is simply an acronym for "disk and execution monitor"
Not really. δαίμων, which in the Latin language from which ours came became "daemonium", that is to say, "demon", yes, although the Greek "daemon" was more a kind of genius or goblin than an evil being from hell. 😛
Etymological discussions aside, that people Spanishize as they please, man; or if not, have them translated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)#Terminology
xDD Correct!