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Htop 2.0 Released, Runs Natively On BSDs and Mac OSX

Posted by yaelk on from the htop-upgrade dept.

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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  1. Re:'Now' runs natively on BSDs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

  2. Re: 'Now' runs natively on BSDs? by jeffb+(2.718) · · Score: 4, 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.