Powerful graphical tools for Ubuntu Linux
In my last article I looked at gaming on Ubuntu Linux and concluded that it is alive and well! Now we head back into the "useful" side of Linux. Linux has a bad reputation of having to use the Command Line Interface (CLI) to do anything really useful. In this article I will talk about some graphical interfaces for tools to get those "useful" things done.
If you want to know how much disk space you have on a Windows machine, what do you do? There's a number of different ways of getting that information, but the way that I usually use is to go to Windows Explorer and right click on the drive letter and select Properties. This opens up a window which looks at the drive and tells me how many folders and items there are, how big it is and how much space is left.
In Linux, how can I see how I get the same information?
You can use the Command Line Interface (CLI) and type in "df -lh" and see something like the following:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 15G 6.5G 7.7G 46% /
varrun 442M 136K 442M 1% /var/run
varlock 442M 0 442M 0% /var/lock
udev 442M 84K 442M 1% /dev
devshm 442M 288K 442M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 442M 39M 404M 9% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
/dev/hda6 15G 9.4G 4.9G 66% /home
gvfs-fuse-daemon 15G 6.5G 7.7G 46% /home/hamish/.gvfs
...but that won't actually mean very much to most people (including me!).
So how do I some more useful information using a graphical tool?
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