What Are System Tools and Utilities?


"System tools and utilities" is a very technical term, encompassing grand concepts in technological leaps and bounds and thoughts and . . . wait . . . I can't lie to you anymore. We've known each other too long now. I made it up. "System tools and utilities" is a collective term to talk about the tasks that you have to do to maintain your computer, troubleshoot problems, and generally know what is going on in the operating system. We need a name for all of these tools and programs that describes them. What were my other choices? "Stuff"? "Things"? With that decided, let's talk about system tools and utilities.

Both Mandrake and Fedora have gone to great lengths to make these potentially difficult tasks as easy as possible for us. Most desktop users will not have to mess with many of the utilities that we are going to talk about. Sometimes, though, you have to do some mundane computer task, such as changing your password, adding new hardware, or changing an obscure setting. You might not have to do certain things with your car, such as change a tire, very often, but it's nice to know how, right?



Linux Desktop(c) Garage
Linux(R) Desktop Garage
ISBN: 0131494198
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 141

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