There are many different GUI based process monitors available for Linux systems. It seems that each desktop environment or window manager has its own solution. The one common process monitor is the command line terminal based top command. Give it a try. To run top, simply open a terminal window and enter:
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It’s become a tradition (and a bit of a running joke) for bloggers and tech pundits to declare that this year (whatever year you’re in) will be The Year of the Linux Desktop. So in following with that tradition, I’m here to declare that 2010 will be The Year of the Linux Desktop, but not …
Continue reading The Perennial Year of the Linux DesktopPreviously I’ve shown how to use the bash while loop in a bash script. Today I’m going to show how to use another type of do loop in bash: the for loop. The for loop is a little different from the other looping structures in bash. The other loop structures work by evaluating whether an …
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