Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖What it means
A long-running program the operating system supervises: it is started at boot, restarted if it dies, and stopped on command. This is the machine's sense of the word — plumbing, not business. Carolverse's shared machinery (the relay, the grounding layer, the status router) is registered as system services so that the parts nobody 'owns' as a product still have an owner and a watcher.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Service
A system service is machinery on the box; a service is a line of business with a budget. The words are identical and the meanings do not overlap at all.
Not: Daemon
Every system service is a daemon, but a daemon nobody registered with the OS is not a system service — and nothing restarts it when it dies.
Not: App
A system service has no face; an app is a page a person opens.
🗣️Also called
systemd unitmanaged serviceOS serviceunit