& konsole; is what is known as an X terminal emulator, often referred to as a terminal or a shell. It gives you the equivalent of an old-fashioned text screen on your desktop, but one which can easily share the screen with your graphical applications. & Windows; users may be familiar with the MS-DOS Prompt utility, which has the analogous function of offering a DOS command-line under & Windows;. (Although the & UNIX; CLI s offer far more power and ease of use than does DOS!)
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