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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 mattventura · · Score: 1

    Doesn't it have a Linux compatibility layer? I think "native" is the keyword there.

  2. Slashdot posts something interesting an useful by ZeroZen · · Score: 1

    Thanks Slashdot! I've been using top like a chump. This is great!

    1. Re:Slashdot posts something interesting an useful by richy+freeway · · Score: 1

      http://lance7xx.blogspot.co.uk...

      3rd hit on Googling "htop android"

      Fear my Google-Fu.

    2. Re:Slashdot posts something interesting an useful by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      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!

    3. Re: Slashdot posts something interesting an useful by Zeromous · · Score: 3, Funny

      oh stop it already. im tired of people acting like they understand systemd. systemd installs YOU, you dummy :D

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    4. Re:Slashdot posts something interesting an useful by CronoCloud · · Score: 1

      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"

  3. Great Stuff by inhuman_4 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Htop is a great piece of software. Glad to hear it is still being improved.

    1. Re:Great Stuff by sl3xd · · Score: 1

      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!!!

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  4. 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.

  5. Already in MacPorts by GlobalEcho · · Score: 1

    For those OSX users who have MacPorts, the new htop is already available.

    1. Re:Already in MacPorts by sl3xd · · Score: 1

      Yahoo!

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  6. 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.

  7. Re:Argh the website! by CronoCloud · · Score: 1

    That's a bit of a consolation to find I'm not the only one that finds the fake console window background distracting.

  8. Re:Is there any reason left to run linux? by epyT-R · · Score: 1

    I guess it depends on what you mean by best.

  9. Availabe on OSX with Brew by scratchy_king · · 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

    1. Re:Availabe on OSX with Brew by HuguesT · · Score: 1

      very reactive, amazing.