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-Smee is the network boot service in the [Tinkerbell stack](https://tinkerbell.org). It is comprised of the following services.
+Smee is the network boot service in the [Tinkerbell stack](https://tinkerbell.org), formerly known as `Boots`. It is comprised of the following services.
 
 - DHCP server
   - host reservations only