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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:02AM (2 children)
Sysinternals guys were real cool dudes, super frood, knew where their towels were, complete opposite of the utter turlingdromes, back when I had to deal with Windows stuff.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:06AM (1 child)
IIRC, Sysinternals was bought out by Microsoft. It wasn't a Microsoft project, until it became successful enough to purchase. I mean - it COULD HAVE become real competition to Microsoft, worse they could have made Microsoft look bad.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:49AM
Sysinternals were just a bunch of dude(tte)s that produces system tools for Windows. Their stuff was awesome useful for those who had to manage Windows computer networks, particularly for those that came from UNIX/VAX world and expected such tools to exist but didn't until the Systeinternans guys came along.
They were never a competition to MS.