#20: Gnome System Monitor - Real-time Systems Reporting and Graphing

The System Monitor application enables you to display basic system information and monitor system processes, usage of system resources, and file systems. You can also use System Monitor to modify the behavior of your system. Although not as powerful as the KDE System Guard, it provides the basic information which may be useful for new users:

• Displays various basic information about the computer's hardware and software.
• Linux Kernel version
• GNOME version
• Hardware
• Installed memory
• Processors and speeds
• System Status
• Currently available disk space
• Processes
• Memory and swap space
• Network usage
• File Systems
• Lists all mounted filesystems along with basic information about each.

Fig.06 The Gnome System Monitor application