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I'm still real new to linux. had it a week and a half now.Are there any programs like windows taskmanager for linux?I need to know whats running and how to shut it down when it jams.also what services can I shut down and what shouldn't I touch?I opened sys -v editor but I'm not sure just what I'm looking at/for.
that doesn't sound overly difficult.would each process have a brief summary of what it's used for?I don't want to be disabling critical processes.thanx again.
A more useful output you can get with the 'top' command. It'll show you most of the processes plus some statistics.
I don't know which desktop are you using but in KDE there's something very similar to what you want, called 'KDE System Guard', with a nice GUI.
that doesn't sound overly difficult.would each process have a brief summary of what it's used for?I don't want to be disabling critical processes.thanx again.
I think if you want to disable deamons (same as an XP service) from starting i find a gui tool helpfull that ships with redhat systems. I dont think you mentioned which distro your using but for redhat and fedora try system-config-services
gnome system monitor will do what you want. Should be available in a menu someplace but exactly where depends on your distro. You can also invoke it from the shell with the command "gnome-system-monitor
If you are running KDE, there is also KDE Taskmanager, which can be invoked from KDE (by default) if you click on an empty section of desktop then hit the CTRL-ESC key combination. I don't know off hand how to invoke it from the shell.
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