Linux Brain Dump

I have been looking for the “perfect” system monitor and I think I have found it in qps. I’ve always felt that kSysGuard was too much of a resource and screen hog to be very useful, and running top or htop in a terminal window wasn’t very friendly. I was looking for an easy display of currently running process, with some graphs and the like. And it looks like I’ve found it in qps.

qps, the “Visual Process Manager”, is a nice little utility with very few requirements. Basically, if you have Qt (the KDE base graphical library), you are all set. Even if you normally run GNOME, you probably have Qt on your system. You can get qps from all your usually distro-dependent sources. If you are on openSUSE, you can find it in the Guru repository.