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I also us a Mac and on it I have a system monitor called Menu Meter that lives in the bar at the top of the screen next to the clock sorry I can't think of the name of the bar any way it shows two line graphs one for each core on the cpu and a pie chart for the ram and I like the know if any one knows of some thing like this for linux
Distribution: Xubuntu Natty on Lenovo R61i Thinkpad
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System Monitor
If your running ubuntu, you can right click on the panel, select Add to Panel, and add the System Monitor Applet. I use it and it does the job quite nicely.
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