Will Htop Replace Default Top Monitoring Tool in Linux?

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Aaron Kili
May 16, 2018

Tecmint: Htop is an interactive, ncurses-based processes viewer for Linux systems. It is practically a top-like tool, but it displays colorful text, and uses ncurses to implement a text-graphical interface, and allows for output scrolling. It doesn’t come preinstalled on most mainstream Linux distributions.

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Aaron Kili

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