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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!

    1. Re:exciting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Don't forget to set the I_WANT_A_BROKEN_PS environment variable!

  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. 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 gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

      Mod Parent Up! Vote Article Down!

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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.

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

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

  9. 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?

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

    Doesn't SCO own the rights to this information?