I've been trying to figure out how to use linux so I can start putting programs on my player.

I was playing around at the bash prompt....doing stuff like running 'player' then interrupting it and starting it again then suspending it and starting it again and trying to run it in the background (which it apparently won't do). Anyways, it seemed like it was starting to get confused. (like hanging at reboot)

But now when I drop to the bash prompt and type 'ps aux' I get this:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND

#0           1  1.5  0.5   240   80 ?        S    16:42   0:09 init

#0           2  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   16:42   0:00 [kflushd]

#0           3  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   16:42   0:00 [kupdate]

#0           4  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   16:42   0:00 [kpiod]

#0           5  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   16:42   0:00 [kswapd]

#0          88  2.0  7.5  1988 1124 ttyS1    S    16:52   0:00 -bash

#0          89  0.0  4.6  2268  692 ttyS1    R    16:52   0:00 ps aux 

Are those first 5 processes supposed to be there when normally drop to the shell? Because I am pretty sure they weren't there before. I only saw them there before when I would press ctrl-z to suspend the player and then type 'ps aux'.