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Posted 10 October 2004 - 11:08 AM

If you launch your terminal prompt in KDE with Konsole you can use these commands to see processes on your computer. The terminal prompt in Gnome is called Terminal I think. It's been awhile since I've used Gnome.

Type free at the prompt. That'll show how much system memory is available.
Type top at the prompt. That'll show you what applications, processes are currently running.
Type df -h at the prompt. That'll show how much hard drive space is available.

Hope that helps. :D

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Posted 10 October 2004 - 01:03 PM

thanks hitest! I'll keep those in mind. :)

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Posted 10 October 2004 - 01:19 PM

Nerelda, on Oct 10 2004, 06:03 PM, said:

thanks hitest! I'll keep those in mind. :)

You're welcome :D

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Posted 10 December 2004 - 01:09 PM

man will get you instructions on almost all commands (try man man)
df -k will show you all mounted partitions

find search tool
grep find tool
| or called pipe lets you redirect a command to another
> redirect output to
>> redirect output and append to
cfdisk partition tool
which shows path of a command
emerge - Gentoo update and program install too
apt advance package manager for debian and ported to Red Hat systems.
echo put to aout put what ever follows
cat show contence to standard output
date show date and time and set date and time
calander shows a calander
yum package manager for Red Hat type systems

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Posted 10 December 2004 - 11:17 PM

iccaros, on Dec 10 2004, 11:09 AM, said:

man will get you instructions on almost all commands (try man man)
df -k will show you all mounted partitions

find search tool
grep find tool
| or called pipe lets you redirect a command to another
> redirect output to
>> redirect output and append to
cfdisk partition tool
which shows path of a command
emerge - Gentoo update and program install too
apt advance package manager for debian and ported to Red Hat systems.
echo put to aout put what ever follows
cat show contence to standard output
date show date and time and set date and time
calander shows a calander
yum package manager for Red Hat type systems

Thanks, iccaros. We appreciate your assistance :D

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