[ubuntu] basic software installation

I would start looking for physical reasons why a laptop is overheating.

If we want to keep an eye on what the OS is doing, there are some applications we can install to monitor various sensors. I have installed Psensor & System Load Indicator (indicator-multiload). They both put an app indicator in the top panel which gives us easy access to the information being collected by those applications.

Psensor records temperatures & fan speeds. And it does that for the CPU, Motherboard, hard drives & video adapter. Psensor allows us to set temperature alarm trigger points.

System Load Indicator monitors CPU, Memory, disk read & write activity & swap usage.

Both of these applications can be installed from the software centre and will load at startup,

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