Htop 2.0 Released, Runs Natively On BSDs and Mac OSX 37
An anonymous reader writes: The popular Linux process viewer htop got a new major revision, and now runs natively on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Mac OS X. The author discussed the process of making the tool cross-platform earlier this year at FOSDEM. Htop also got some new features, including mouse wheel support via ncurses 6 and listing process environment variables.
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Re: 'Now' runs natively on BSDs? (Score:5, Informative)
FWIW, I just installed it without incident on an instance of 10.6.8. That's pretty far back, and the site indicates there's at least some chance it'll work on even older releases.
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htop did work on FreeBSD, but you had to jump through hoops (you might have already jumped through for Linux emulation) to enable linprocfs for it to work. Now it uses native BSD process APIs and doesn't require linprocfs. Is probably faster/less resource intensive as a result now.
Slashdot posts something interesting an useful (Score:1)
Thanks Slashdot! I've been using top like a chump. This is great!
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http://lance7xx.blogspot.co.uk... [blogspot.co.uk]
3rd hit on Googling "htop android"
Fear my Google-Fu.
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Quite frankly I don't know how you've lived without it. This is among the first programs I install on a vanilla Linux system along with midnight commander, nmon, iptraf, vi and emacs.
That's right I installed them both. What you gonna do about it!
Re: Slashdot posts something interesting an useful (Score:4, Funny)
oh stop it already. im tired of people acting like they understand systemd. systemd installs YOU, you dummy :D
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Yeah, this. I think I can vaguely recall hearing about htop before, but don't remember looking at any screenshots of it or installing it before now.
It's VERY nice, it actually has mouse support. Well for me it did. Yeah, there's graphical process managers, but in some ways they're "too" graphical. And unlike some OTHER terminal applications it doesn't use that silly hard to read default super dark blue, but what looks like "DodgerBlue"
Great Stuff (Score:4, Insightful)
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I'd say I'm ridiculously excited about this, but I don't want to understate it.
Htop is one of those little gems that made the world a better place to be.
Kudos & thanks to the developers!!!
Already in MacPorts (Score:2)
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Yahoo!
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That's a bit of a consolation to find I'm not the only one that finds the fake console window background distracting.
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I guess it depends on what you mean by best.
Availabe on OSX with Brew (Score:1)
Version 2.0 available on Mac
brew install htop
or
brew upgrade htop
Or in some cases, like mine, first:
brew remove htop-osx
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very reactive, amazing.