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Microsoft Releases Open-Source Process Monitor for Linux

posted by chromas on Saturday July 18 2020, @11:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the micro$oft-please-stop-breaking-my-world-view dept.

DECbot writes:

Michael Larabel writes in Phoronix about Microsoft's new open-source process monitor for Linux:

Microsoft's newest open-source Linux software is ProcMon for Linux, a rewritten and re-imagined version of its Processor Monitor found on Windows within their Sysinternals suite.
 
Microsoft's ProcMon tool is a C++-written, open-source process monitor for Linux that makes it convenient to trace system call activity. This ProcMon Linux version is open-source under an MIT license.
 
Microsoft released the source code to their ProcMon Linux version on Thursday and is marked as a 1.0 preview release. Microsoft is also making available a Debian/Ubuntu package of this preview build.

The Phoronix article includes a gif demonstrating ProcMon. To my amateur eyes, this looks like htop without the resource monitoring and instead has some stack tracing capabilities. Has anybody given Microsoft's ProcMon a test drive? What are your thoughts?

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @11:57PM (10 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @11:57PM (#1023553)

    It's like htop, but with added telemetry. First it uploaded my /home directories to Redmond for analysis, then downloaded a Windows 10 installation iso and asked "Do you want to upgrade your OS? [Yes/OK/Sure]". I opened a console and typed " kill -kill procmon" and it proceeded to upgrade my system to Windows 10. But on the plus side, no more systemd.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Opportunist on Sunday July 19 2020, @12:55AM (9 children)

    by Opportunist (5545) on Sunday July 19 2020, @12:55AM (#1023570)

    So... Win10 or systemd...

    Is "just shoot me" an option?

    • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @12:59AM (5 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @12:59AM (#1023575)

      Devuan - goofy name, no systemd.

      Slackware - do they still use tarball "package management?" Still good, though.

      • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday July 19 2020, @02:14AM (2 children)

        by Reziac (2489) on Sunday July 19 2020, @02:14AM (#1023602) Homepage

        PCLinuxOS ... another goofy name, no systemd.

        --
        And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @03:08AM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @03:08AM (#1023615)

          VAX/VMS . . . . no systems either.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:04AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:04AM (#1023674)

            ZOS?

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @05:17AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @05:17AM (#1023648)

        Gentoo

      • (Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:51PM

        by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:51PM (#1023721) Journal

        Yes, I'm running slackware64-current on five machines.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:13PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:13PM (#1023708)

      VOID. BSD-style rolling release distro. Uses runit, which is scriptable. Simple install, very well maintained.

    • (Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday July 19 2020, @02:36PM

      by driverless (4770) on Sunday July 19 2020, @02:36PM (#1023729)

      You forgot to mention it also includes three privesc vulnerabilities, eight buffer overflows, and two wormable 0days.

    • (Score: 2) by bart on Friday August 07 2020, @08:00PM

      by bart (2844) on Friday August 07 2020, @08:00PM (#1033121)

      Void linux runs very well, and no systemd. Boot and shutdown times a few seconds, rolling release but very stable.