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Quickly Kill Rogue Apps in Ubuntu with FlashFreeze

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 17, 2011

“When an application ‘crashes’ it usually doesn’t require any
input from you (other than banging your head against the wall at
any unsaved work now lost).

But applications that decide to ‘hang’ or ‘freeze’ not only get
in the way of you carrying on with whatever you were doing but can
often max out your system resources – leaving you with no
option but to reboot or nose-dive into the command line.

That’s where FlashFreeze by Sergey ‘shnatsel’ Davidoff is of
use.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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