Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform • Hacker News Board

rmellow wrote: post #118

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #102

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Apropos of nothing: does country of origin (or is it residence; or residence of the main contributors) tell us anything that is at all useful? It seems like information - the sort people go 'oh really, how fascinating' to - but I can't really see how it's relevant. Anyone want to chip in and make a stand for national identity or anything? To me it's kinda like you said 'find and grep are the two main contributions to…

This is a legitimate question. I'm brazilian and I constantly see Facebook posts in Portuguese highlighting "Of the top X things, Y are Brazilian!", whereas I see none or very little of that in English speaking communities. My theory is that there are relatively few great international contributions from Brazil and we rejoice anytime we see one.

Lol you should try being from Iceland

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

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Post by masklinn » Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 3:06 PM UTC

gaius wrote: post #50

niutech wrote: post #48

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?

> Now we use it to mean various flavours of Linux.

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"Portable" htop 2.0 works on FreeBSD[0], OpenBSD[1] and OSX[2], not just "various flavours of linux".

[0] https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/tree/master/freebsd

[1] https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/tree/master/openbsd

[2] https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/tree/master/darwin

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Post by brndn » Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 3:09 PM UTC

spirit555 wrote: post #14

I love htop! I hope homebrew gets it soon. Mine only says version 0.8.2.8? I donated $5 to the developer. Thanks for htop

For others interested in donating: http://hisham.hm/htop/index.php?page=donate

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

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Post by masklinn » Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 3:18 PM UTC

kajecounterhack wrote: post #71

romanovcode wrote: post #64

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.

> depends on having a unix filesystem.

It doesn't do that. Before the multiplatform changes it did depend on having procfs (linux's I assume since BSDs had a non-identical procfs yet weren't supported), aside from the OSX fork which ripped out all the /proc access and replaced them with OSX API calls.

What it does depend on is ncurses.

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

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Post by masklinn » Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 3:21 PM UTC

romanovcode wrote: post #68

alfanick wrote: post #67

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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.

The OSX version is/was a fork of htop 0.8.2

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Post by digi_owl » Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 3:23 PM UTC

ketralnis wrote: post #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. Kudo…

Cantrill loves to rant, don't he?

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Post by masklinn » Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 3:24 PM UTC

drvortex wrote: post #101

To be fair, it is still only for POSIX-y systems. Not cross platform in the conventional sense.

Working on different unix-like OS is cross-platform in a completely conventional sense.

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Post by fiatjaf » Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 3:26 PM UTC

hisham_hm wrote: post #111

davidbanham wrote: post #108

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It's just a little point of interest. I don't often think about my life intersecting with the nation off of Brazil, yet I use htop every day. Now I'll probably cast my mind to a Brazilian rainforest when I do. Just makes the world a slightly more interesting place.

Thanks! Always nice when we help to make people's perceptions of places less unidimensional. Brazil is not only a place with rainforests, we also have coders! :) (Though, even though I'm a (Southern) Brazilian myself, I used to think the whole "monkeys in the streets" here was a hoax until I moved to Rio de Janeiro and I realized they have tiny squirrel-sized monkeys running atop the power lines there!)

You're living in Rio de Janeiro? I'm sorry for you.