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  2. Docker (software) - Wikipedia

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    The main classes of Docker objects are images, containers, and services. [22] A Docker container is a standardized, encapsulated environment that runs applications. [25] A container is managed using the Docker API or CLI. [22] A Docker image is a read-only template used to build containers. Images are used to store and ship applications. [22] A ...

  3. Booting process of Windows - Wikipedia

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    When a user is logging on to Windows, the startup sound is played, the shell (usually EXPLORER.EXE) is loaded from the [boot] section of the SYSTEM.INI file, and startup items are loaded. In all versions of Windows 9x except ME, it is also possible to load Windows by booting to a DOS prompt and typing "win".

  4. Containerization (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Container clusters need to be managed. This includes functionality to create a cluster, to upgrade the software or repair it, balance the load between existing instances, scale by starting or stopping instances to adapt to the number of users, to log activities and monitor produced logs or the application itself by querying sensors.

  5. LXC - Wikipedia

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    It is a container hypervisor providing an API to manage LXC containers. [14] The LXD project was started in 2015 and was sponsored from the start by Canonical Ltd. , the company behind Ubuntu . On 4 July 2023, the LinuxContainers project announced that Canonical had decided to take over the LXD project but a fork called Incus was made.

  6. Windows Boot Manager - Wikipedia

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    The Windows Boot Manager (BOOTMGR) is the bootloader provided by Microsoft for Windows NT versions starting with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. It is the first program launched by the BIOS or UEFI of the computer and is responsible for loading the rest of Windows. [1] It replaced the NTLDR present in older versions of Windows.

  7. systemd - Wikipedia

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    systemd is the first daemon to start during booting and the last daemon to terminate during shutdown. The systemd daemon serves as the root of the user space's process tree ; the first process ( PID 1) has a special role on Unix systems, as it replaces the parent of a process when the original parent terminates.

  8. Daemon (computing) - Wikipedia

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    The term was coined by the programmers at MIT's Project MAC.According to Fernando J. Corbató, who worked on Project MAC around 1963, his team was the first to use the term daemon, inspired by Maxwell's demon, an imaginary agent in physics and thermodynamics that helped to sort molecules, stating, "We fancifully began to use the word daemon to describe background processes that worked ...

  9. Kernel (operating system) - Wikipedia

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    This product line continued to evolve through the 1980s and 1990s, with the Windows 9x series adding 32-bit addressing and pre-emptive multitasking; but ended with the release of Windows Me in 2000. Microsoft also developed Windows NT , an operating system with a very similar interface, but intended for high-end and business users.