Processes, daemons, and systemd
In this section, we will review processes and several ways to explore the ones running on our system. We will then continue by covering daemons, which are special processes running permanently on our system. Finally, we will cover systemd, the service manager on Manjaro and most major Linux distributions. Many people view it only as a service manager. However, it serves as a system and service manager, and we will see why and how.
Processes
A process is any task started automatically by the operating system (OS), like an SSH server, or manually by us, such as a web browser. Each newly opened terminal runs as a separate process. If you copy a file, it is performed in a separate process. There is a constant running process for the events from your mouse – movements and button clicks, and another process for your keyboard input. More complex programs start several processes. For example, internet browsers always have one primary process, multiple...
