Assignment:
1. Provide a command that launches top in the background (the command must work if I directly copy it into my CentOS command line).
2. Describe the differences between a child process, an orphaned process, and a zombie process. Who adopts an orphaned process?
3. What is the difference between ps, ps a, and ps ax? Between ps aux and ps afx?
4. If you were to increase a Linux process niceness (make the nice value larger), does this raise or lower its priority? What is the range of values you can set the nice value to?
5. In Windows, how can you move a process from the foreground to the background? In Linux from the command line, how can you move a process from the foreground to the background?