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Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform

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Re: Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform

#61
I really enjoyed this talk[1] by Bryan Cantrill, part of which is about what it took to emulate Linux's syscalls from within SmartOS. It's lengthy, but enjoyable.

One of the applications that they tried to port directly to before the emulation layer was htop, and he has a good rant about what that took because of its use of /proc and how that made porting it very difficult.

Given that, I'm sure this wasn't easy. Kudos!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrfD3pC0VSs

Re: Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform

#62

Wouldn't braille characters also make nicer progress bars? I think they look more dense then a bunch of ||||

Braille characters, or just colons and full stops?

  [::::::::....        ]
  [::::::::::......    ]
Could you give an example of the braille characters being used in this way?

Re: Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform

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Still no Windows though.

Haha everyone used to mock MS because cross platform to them meant Win16 AND Win32. Now we use it to mean various flavours of Linux. Progress?

I'm pretty sure it worked on most Linux distros and even on mac. I don't see how it's big news.

That's not progress, it's just faulty marketing.

Re: Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform

#66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a quick way to avoid having all those cores take up the top 32 lines of the screen? Checking my 40 core machine in a typical terminal window, I can't see any of the processes, just 40 lines of CPU! Thanks.

If you press F2 you can change the setup for the top meters and switch it out with CPU average or other combinations of cores.

...or if you're not the interactive type (or deploy untold millions of images), edit .htoprc .

Hm. Given the opacity of that config file, I went the way "configure interactively, then roll out the new .htoprc"

Re: Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform

#67

Wait, where are the Windows binaries? Oh, I see. They trying to be smart and say "cross-platform" because now it runs on more Linux distros. That's not smart, that's faulty marketing. And AFAIK it already was running on 90% of Linux and also on MacOS.

it is a big news - it really is cross-platform - OS X version was really outdated

Re: Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform

#68

Wait, where are the Windows binaries? Oh, I see. They trying to be smart and say "cross-platform" because now it runs on more Linux distros. That's not smart, that's faulty marketing. And AFAIK it already was running on 90% of Linux and also on MacOS.

it is a big news - it really is cross-platform - OS X version was really outdated

Using it on my Mac every day and didn't even notice that it was outdated. But thanks for info.

Re: Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform

#69

Wait, where are the Windows binaries? Oh, I see. They trying to be smart and say "cross-platform" because now it runs on more Linux distros. That's not smart, that's faulty marketing. And AFAIK it already was running on 90% of Linux and also on MacOS.

BSD is not Linux. htop now supports several different Unices.

Re: Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform

#70

Wait, where are the Windows binaries? Oh, I see. They trying to be smart and say "cross-platform" because now it runs on more Linux distros. That's not smart, that's faulty marketing. And AFAIK it already was running on 90% of Linux and also on MacOS.

it is a big news - it really is cross-platform - OS X version was really outdated

And there was no BSD version.
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