Let me tell you about my first experience with the BitCoind app

[SidewalkCynic]

I am a gluten for action - a couple of hours ago I learned about BitCoin, found this forum and installed the BitCoin app.  I found the BitCoin package in Synaptic, and I ran it to see if there was a GUI or anything, and about a half hour later I noticed my CPU2 in overdrive and found that BitCoinD was doing something, so I killed it.

Can anybody tell me what it was doing?

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[Raoul Duke]

I am a gluten for action - a couple of hours ago I learned about BitCoin, found this forum and installed the BitCoin app.  I found the BitCoin package in Synaptic, and I ran it to see if there was a GUI or anything, and about a half hour later I noticed my CPU2 in overdrive and found that BitCoinD was doing something, so I killed it.

Can anybody tell me what it was doing?

Probably downloading the blockchain. You'll need it to run the client. Should take several hours to download.

[TasoshiKanamoto]

I am a gluten for action - a couple of hours ago I learned about BitCoin, found this forum and installed the BitCoin app.  I found the BitCoin package in Synaptic, and I ran it to see if there was a GUI or anything, and about a half hour later I noticed my CPU2 in overdrive and found that BitCoinD was doing something, so I killed it.

Can anybody tell me what it was doing?

bitcoind is the daemon. You won't see much of a GUI there. Did you check the wiki on how to properly install and configure bitcoin?

[RodeoX]

The client is bitcoin and the daemon is bitcoind. When you start the client you will see a GUI, and it will run you HDD like hell while it downloads the entire blockchain. Once caught-up it will calm down.  Each time you start the client after that it will only need to download the blocks created since it was last running.

Welcome peer