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Htop 2.0 Released, Runs Natively On BSDs and Mac OSX

Linux · Mac · 2016-02-11 08:15 · posted by yaelk · from the htop-upgrade dept. · 37 comments

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.
The End Of Minix?

Tech · Unix · 2002-10-15 16:03 · posted by timothy · from the i'm-shrinking-i'm-shrinking dept. · 401 comments

Otter writes "Minix is best known as the Unix clone for x86 that inspired Linus Torvalds to write one himself. It's pretty much dropped off the map since. The latest patch for XFree86's xterm drops support for Minix. As the changelog notes, 'Juliusz Chroboczek noted it was removed from XFree86 server; there have been no users since 1996.'"