apmd – power management daemon used mostly for laptops and green machines. atd – related to crond, used to execute things at specific times. I had nothing scheduled. autofs – typically used for automatically mounting removable media and network shares. avahi-daemon - registers local IP addresses and static services using mDNS/DNS-SD (zeroconf) Bluetooth – Are *you* using Bluetooth?  cpuspeed – responsible for adjusting processor speed dynamically, disable unless using a laptop cups – Common UNIX Printing Solution, chances are you won’t requiring printing functionality firstboot – responsible for detecting hardware during the initial install gpm – responsible for allowing mouse functionality in text-only mode hidd – Bluetooth HID daemon irqbalance – this can be safely disabled if you do not have an SMP kernel or system kudzu – if your hardware configuration is static and won’t change, disable it mcstrans – translation daemon used by SELinux. Previously had partial DDoS vulnerability. mdmonitor – responsible for monitoring RAID arrays microcode_ctl – updates the microcode on Intel CPUs nfslock – handles file locks on NFS, NFS is disabled by default pcscd – handles Smart Cards and cryptographic tokens portmap – NFS file sharing over TCP/IP networks rpcidmapd / rpcgssd – Network File System Daemons