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As in Windows, is there a Task Manager, or a Sytem Info application for gnome? (Debian) And/or something similar to 'msconfig' (for choosing what runs at startup)
As far as a system info program, a task-manager like program is available for kde, just hit "ctrl-esc" - I don't remember what the program name is called, and I'm not in KDE right now. You can also get some good info from the command-line about memory / CPU usage / etc. by running "top".
For the startup programs, you can see what's run on bootup by looking at /etc/rc2.d. All of the scripts in there right now are probably there because of packages you have installed - things like the ssh daemon, cron, etc. The other numbers (besides 2 - e.g. /etc/rc1.d, /etc/rc3.d) mark different runlevels the system enters into, you can find information about the runlevels by typing "man init". Looks like 0 is shutdown, 1 is to get the system into single-user mode (early / emergency initialization), and I BELIEVE 2 is for multi-user startup and 6 is reboot, but I could be wrong. Anyways, placing a link to your own script in one of those folders (and making sure the execute bit is set on the appropriate script / program) will cause that script to be run on entering that runlevel. Make sure you name it like all the other scripts - Sxxscriptname, where "xx' is a number from 00 - 99 that signifies the order the scripts in that folder will be run in, and "scriptname" is whatever name you want.
If you have it installed, the KDE process monitor can be opened from the command line with "ksysguard". Click on "process table" to view/kill running processes. It also gives other system information.
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