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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: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:08AM (6 children)
Now that you ask - yes there is something wrong with them. They don't have Microsoft's official stamp of approval.
I'm suspicious of anything that Microsoft wants to install on a Linux machine. Didn't Poettering work for Microsoft before he started systemdestroying Linux?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @02:57AM (1 child)
The work history section of Pottering's wikipedia page does not mention Microsoft.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @03:09AM
Use Wikipedia's history feature and you can see it in an earlier version, likely changed so as not to damage his Linux creds. It's the period that now shows as "In federal prison for pedophilia".
(Score: 5, Informative) by Marand on Sunday July 19 2020, @04:11AM (2 children)
You're probably thinking of GNOME creator Miguel de Icaza, who was a Microsoft fanboy from the start, worked an internship at MS early on, and was so enamoured with Microsoft's way of doing things that he brought both the registry [wikipedia.org] (deprecated now but its replacement [wikipedia.org] isn't particularly different) and .NET [wikipedia.org] to Linux as parts of the GNOME project. He's also been an advocate of Microsoft's OOXML format [slashdot.org] and, after decades of pro-Microsoft advocacy, finally got his wish and became an employee of Microsoft via their acquisition of Xamarin [microsoft.com], a company he created specifically to focus on spreading the use of .NET to non-Windows places like Android, iOS, and Linux.
Like Poettering, his "contributions" to Linux are controversial and sometimes detrimental, though at least you can see that Poettering is pro-Linux even if his way of showing it is questionable. Miguel, on the other hand, is a long-time mac user [tirania.org] that has complained more than once about how horrible he thinks Linux is in comparison. Kind of ironic that the person that started GNOME has never given much of a shit about Linux. Says a lot about GNOME's way of doing things, really.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @08:52AM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @03:20PM
there was once a ... norton commander, for like DOS? oh and ... laplink!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:18PM
" Didn't Poettering work for Microsoft before he started systemdestroying Linux?"
Redmondhat.