Include htop interactive process viewer/manager as default into Mint iso image

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas]

Currently Linux Mint doesn't have user-friendly text mode process viewer/manager - top utility is not intuitive, very hard to use and old crap :)

Please include htop interactive process viewer/manager as default into Mint CD I'm using htop utility since 2004 and feel happy :)

htop utility has lots of improvements comparing to old top:

In 'htop' you can scroll the list vertically and horizontally to see all processes and complete command lines.
In 'top' you are subject to a delay for each unassigned key you press (especially annoying when multi-key escape sequences are triggered by accident).
'htop' starts faster ('top' seems to collect data for a while before displaying anything).
In 'htop' you don't need to type the process number to kill a process, in 'top' you do.
In 'htop' you don't need to type the process number or the priority value to renice a process, in 'top' you do.
'htop' supports mouse operation, 'top' doesn't

See http://hisham.hm/htop/index.php?page=comparison

Some other Ubuntu based distributions already have htop in default CD image, for example Baltix GNU/Linux has htop since 2004 :)

Ubuntu users also suggest to include htop, see http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2026

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

htop was included into Baltix GNU/Linux since year 2004 or 2004