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Btop++ is a power resource monitor for Linux

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Re: Btop++ is a power resource monitor for Linux

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Post by smichel17 »

budzynski wrote: post #20
Naac wrote: post #18

On the surface looks like an improvement over htop ( which I've been using for 10+ years ) But this is the kind of software that I would want to keep using. Will btop keep being supported? Is btop going to be available in practically all distros I use? Even currently on Arch its only in the AUR. Its also concerning there is btop[0] and bpytop[1]? I don't understand the difference. [0] https://github.com/aristocratos/…

I think bpytop is the previous version writtten in Python. btop++ is a cpp re-write

And, as I just found while poking around, `bpytop` is also a rewrite, of the original(?) `bashtop`.

Re: Btop++ is a power resource monitor for Linux

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Post by stjohnswarts »

yewenjie wrote: post #4

I have been using glances for a terminal sysmon but I don't like that it eats so much RAM. Can someone please recommend a system monitor that is easy to comprehend and less resource hungry? I am also curious about below [0] since it came up recently. [0] https://github.com/facebookincubator/below

ytop is nice rust based one if you like the rust ecosystem, it's still good even if you don't but I think you need to install cargo/rust in most cases to build it, I don't think anyone packages it. "cargo install ytop" -> .cargo/bin/ytop

Re: Btop++ is a power resource monitor for Linux

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Post by zamadatix »

einpoklum wrote: post #53
zamadatix wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't control your device OS or otherwise have access to a machine you do, your OS does not offer modern packages, and you don't have the ability to otherwise pull in development toolchain resources.... yet it's supposed to be the projects problem you can't compile something started in 2021 from source on your older setup? I get your current situation is less than ideal for you but at some point you have to accep…

You have the implicit assumption that I'm working on an individual project. Imagine a large company which settles on an OS for some product that goes into the field for 10 or 20 years. That's the OS you're stuck with. And yes, that's painful in itself. Now, I _can_, with some effort, pull/build a development toolchain. But it would be much nicer if I could have access to this utility on machines with older toolchains…

> You have the implicit assumption that I'm working on an individual project.

There is no such implication.

Re: Btop++ is a power resource monitor for Linux

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Post by ghotli »

harshitaneja wrote: post #56
einpoklum wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have the implicit assumption that I'm working on an individual project. Imagine a large company which settles on an OS for some product that goes into the field for 10 or 20 years. That's the OS you're stuck with. And yes, that's painful in itself. Now, I _can_, with some effort, pull/build a development toolchain. But it would be much nicer if I could have access to this utility on machines with older toolchains…

You can install the binary on your device and don't need to compile from source for using the application. It seems unfair to both developers and other users of the project to expect it to be compatible with older toolchains given the benefits of the newer builds.

This. In the github readme it says static binaries are supplied. Thinking of linux and linux tooling as just something distros supply limit the imagination. Pull down the correct static and you're done. If you still want to compile it, it's easy.

From linux from scratch to muslcc to buildroot to yocto you can get nice new compilers and run them in docker or in a simple chroot. Requiring new compiler versions is a good thing and any disto related impediments are a distraction from just getting simple toolchain tooling going.

Re: Btop++ is a power resource monitor for Linux

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Post by em-bee »

ydant wrote: post #59
iudqnolq wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use `unp` for the same thing. `-u` extracts into a directory.

Since unp is a stock ticker, it's a little harder to find: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/unp Looks like it might be in standard Ubuntu repositories: https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man1/unp.1.html

i use unar/lsar

https://theunarchiver.com/command-line https://github.com/MacPaw/XADMaster

in difference to unp and atool, unar does not depend on other tools to unpack the actual archive

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