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

Bug #897245 reported by Mantas Kriaučiūnas
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Linux Mint
New
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Baltix
Fix Committed
Low
Mantas Kriaučiūnas

Bug Description

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

Revision history for this message
Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote :

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

Changed in baltix:
assignee: nobody → Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)
importance: Undecided → Low
milestone: none → breezy
status: New → Fix Committed
summary: - Include htop interactive process viewer/manager as default into Mint CD
+ Include htop interactive process viewer/manager as default into Mint iso
+ image
description: updated
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