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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. Use the Firehose! by 644bd346996 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you think this article is stupid and an insult to your technical prowess, go to the firehose and vote it down.

    1. Re:Use the Firehose! by Vellmont · · Score: 4, Insightful


      If you think this article is stupid and an insult to your technical prowess, go to the firehose and vote it down.

      Not everyone on Slashdot is at the same level as everyone else. While I've known all the stuff in the article for 10-12 years, I'm certain there's a significant number of people here that have no idea about process forking, or what the init process is.

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  2. Gee Whizzes by helixcode123 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have mod points, but I thought I'd post instead: Look genuises. Not every slashdot reader is a Unix guru. I think this is an excellent article and does a great job explaining some of the core workings of Unix/Linux. I've been fortunate enough to be using Unix since 1981 and I actually enjoyed reading the article. It offers our Windows-centric Slashdot breatheren a nice overview.

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  3. Re:What the flying f*ck? by NeoPaladin394 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    This is an article in a series (labeled Introductory to Intermediate) designed to introduce to the O/S. The first article in the series talks about how to use find! You can't point at an O'Reilly book and call Stupid because you know what it talks about. The article is well written and explains processes perfectly for the intended audience, and not everyone is born with the intrinsic knowledge of how every O/S in the world works. Readers on this site want a world of O/S choices, but are so willing to bash an article that will help accomplish just that? And just because it gives a quick, sentence overview of PS and LS? Unbelievable.

    The article may or may not belong on the front page, but claiming someone's illiterate for not knowing stuff like this, especially if they were in an Apple or MS shop? Heaven forbid.

  4. Re:Woop-tee-doo. by ukemike · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a basic primer on UNIX job control. Whee. Not that it isn't well done or useful to the target audience -- but how is this 'news', never mind 'stuff that matters'?
    "Looks like someone has a case of the mondays!"

    I thought that the slashdot community was supportive of people migrating away from windoze to the linux world. TFA covers things that are not obvious to people that don't have *nix experience. It was a nicely written article. It might spur discussion on further basic knowledge needed to deal with linux. The whole community of "nerds" includes slide-rules to slashdot. Not every nerd is a sysadmin. To me this was useful. I already had learned 75% but had forgotten some and a bit was new and might be handy. That is "stuff that matters" to me. If nothing else cranky sysadmins, when posed with a question about something this basic, could roll their eyes condescendingly and give a link to this handy page.

    The better question is why is this posted under "devcelopers"?
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