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Learn How UNIX Multitasks

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-can't-even-unitask-this-morning dept.

BlueVoodoo writes "On UNIX systems, each system and end-user task is contained within a process. Learn how to control processes and use a number of commands to peer into your system."

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  1. exciting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow! ps, top, sleep, kill, PIDs? This is some pretty groundbreaking stuff here!

  2. please, hepl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I get
    "ps: Command not found"

    What do to? Heeeeeelp.

  3. Incredible! by Wuhao · · Score: 5, Funny

    With several businesses now owning their own Unix mainframes, and with some futurists speculating that hobbyists may one day have full-fledged Unix systems in their basements, a detailed understanding of Unix operation -- including its intricacies, like these "processes" -- becomes increasingly important, even for people not charged with the operation of one of these computational goliaths. I for one plan to study these "processes" carefully.

  4. Re:Use the Firehose! by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mod Parent Up! Vote Article Down!

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    This guy's the limit!
  5. Digg? by loconet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did I mistype the URL? No, it does say slashdot.org. Odd... I should go back to bed.

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  6. In Other News... by Ikcor · · Score: 5, Funny

    How to master the "other half" of the keyboard using the newly discovered SHIFT key.

  7. Segfaults by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If it helps, you can think of a process as its own sovereign nation, with borders, resources, and gross domestic product.
    Does this mean that illegal immigrants are responsible for my processes segfaulting?

  8. IBM had better be careful.. by Morky · · Score: 5, Funny

    Doesn't SCO own the rights to this information?