I'm sure I'll find some visual tool to butt in on that too!
Maybe? But I've never found one that offered proper granularity.
Though, it might be more accurate to say that I've never noticed such. Yeah, it's likely that I've just never noticed and that some tools already offer this.
I'll give you a hint about the next article... Well, probably not 'next', so I don't bore myself, but 'the second part of this article' would be a bit more accurate.
The next step is to use these PIDs to kill processes. First, you try it the nice way. If that doesn't work, you force the kernel to unload the process - and that works. (Though it may leave zombie processes.)
I've never
noticed a GUI tool that let me pick between them.
But, yeah, surely such an option exists - but every distro has a nice handy terminal that comes installed by default.
Hmm... Now I kinda want a GUI tool that does that. Something that lets me pick between killall -9 and killall -15. (There are other values, but I only worry about those two on a regular basis.)
It shouldn't be too hard to write a tool to do that. Just pull the results from
ps aux
and then offer both (or more) in the right click menu as a way to kill the processes.
Surely someone's done that already and I just don't notice - 'cause I just use the terminal.
More than enough time for a rookie to panic and run in the nearest corn field, hide for a few hours and mumble to himself about the big bad Linux community trying to make him do horrible things to his pc.
I'm kinda shocked at how much traffic my site gets. Lately, I mostly just pay attention to the bandwidth costs and I'm using about 40 GB (which is quite a bit for a site like mine) of just CDN traffic. People are staying on the page for an average of about 3.5 minutes, which means they're reading it. I no longer bother with heat map tracking, as I've seen enough.
So, hopefully, I'm bringing people up to speed with Linux and they're learning as they go.
Hopefully... I get a ton of my traffic from people searching Google. So, there's that...