From Top to Bottom

Bottom is the latest process and system monitoring terminal user interface tool, delivering lightweight but beautiful monitoring.

Federico Lucifredi

Bottom (btm) [1] is the humorously named successor to top. Blending mouse interaction and keystrokes in a terminal window, Bottom is pushing forward a crowded, ever-advancing field led until recently by bashtop [2] [3], its more performant cousin bpytop [4], and many others [5] alongside the evergreen original top [6]. Rust-based, Bottom promises a more lightweight and highly customizable cross-platform experience; on macOS, install via Brew (brew install bottom). On Ubuntu, the choice of hosting packages in GitHub repos instead of Ubuntu Universe makes the command choice dependent on architecture in the apt path, but a straightforward Snap install is available: Refer to the project homepage for more details [7]. Kicking Tires Among so many options, what makes btm special? It provides immediate and time series monitoring of CPU, memory,…

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