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Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform

hisham.hm

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

#71

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.

No, it's accurate marketing. Asking for htop to be available on windows is kinda silly if you recall that htop is "top++" and depends on having a unix filesystem.

"Cross-platform" is a contextual term.

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

#76

Huge htop fan. Honestly probably my favorite unix utility. Just did `brew update && brew upgrade` but not seeing an htop update. I am still running htop 0.8.2.8 via brew. Also tried on an AWS server running Ubuntu, same thing `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade` no new htop version available. Running htop 1.0.2.

Looks like two^Wthree people have already raised PRs for getting version 2 in Homebrew[0]

[0] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=...

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

#79

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.

"Until it supports MY specific OS, it's not cross-platform, wah wah wah!" In this way, there is no cross-platform program at all, because there's always something that's not supported. How is Windows a measuring-stick of compatibility for UNIXlike tools? (And why would this ever be useful on Windows, which has completely different way of managing processes?)

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

#80

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.

"Until it supports MY specific OS, it's not cross-platform, wah wah wah!" In this way, there is no cross-platform program at all, because there's always something that's not supported. How is Windows a measuring-stick of compatibility for UNIXlike tools? (And why would this ever be useful on Windows, which has completely different way of managing processes?)

I don't even use Windows. I'm just sayin' calling something cross-platform when it doesn't support most used OS is wrong.
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