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wiki.debian.org /debconf debconf is a software utility for performing system-wide configuration tasks on Unix-like operating systems. It is developed for the Debian Linux distribution , and is closely integrated with Debian's package management system, dpkg .
Resource Location and Discovery (RELOAD) is a peer-to-peer (P2P) signalling protocol for use on the Internet. A P2P signalling protocol provides its clients with an abstract storage and messaging service between a set of cooperating peers that form the overlay network.
xinetd listens for incoming requests over a network and launches the appropriate service for that request. [5] Requests are made using port numbers as identifiers and xinetd usually launches another daemon to handle the request. [6] It can be used to start services with both privileged and non-privileged port numbers.
NetworkManager takes an opportunistic approach to network selection, attempting to use the best available connection as outages occur, or as the user roams between wireless networks. It prefers Ethernet connections over “known” wireless networks, which are preferred over wireless networks with SSIDs to which the user has never connected.
udev (userspace /dev) is a device manager for the Linux kernel.As the successor of devfsd and hotplug, udev primarily manages device nodes in the /dev directory. At the same time, udev also handles all user space events raised when hardware devices are added into the system or removed from it, including firmware loading as required by certain devices.
resolv.conf is a computer file used in various operating systems to configure the system's Domain Name System (DNS) resolver.The file is a plain-text file usually created by the network administrator or by applications that manage the configuration tasks of the system.
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Debian (/ ˈ d ɛ b i ə n /), [7] [8] also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a free and open source [b] Linux distribution, developed by the Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock in August 1993. Debian is one of the oldest operating systems based on the Linux kernel, and is the basis for many other Linux distributions.