HackNBlog @ Salamanteri Server

Advanced users (and some regular desktop users too) have a need for process viewer (for those who don’t know what I mean, it’s equivalent of process lister that you get with ctrl-alt-del in windows) - and while some are happy or even insist on using nothing but graphical application for this (’gnome-system-monitor‘ in Gnome), some of us prefer to use one that is console based or prefer having both depending on situation so there is a big demand for a good console based process viewer for *nix systems.

The old ‘top’ and way more advanced alternative

htop, interactive Linux process monitor

Many people know ‘top‘ to be such tool - unfortunately many don’t know other interactive ones - there is non-interactive ‘ps‘ for getting process list, but it just prints process list (with information and formatting according to parameters) while interactive process lister lets you view the list, send signals to processes (ie. to kill a process) or to change their priority (’nice’ value). There however is much more advanced application than ‘top‘, yet very much like ‘top‘ in having all that is good in ‘top‘, but replacing many UI parts with better functionality. The app is called ‘htop‘.

I have the first poll on my site: about “year of desktop linux”. Please vote for your opinion!

There has been numerous blogs and other articles writing of “This is/was the year of desktop Linux” - naturally also with loads of criticism about it. I have my own opinion about year of desktop Linux, but that will be written about in another blog entry. All I say is that for me Year of the linux desktop already was - I leave you wondering what it was

So there, go on and wote!