System Monitoring Center and Mission Center: 2 Task Monitors
A few days ago, we shared another post about one of the many resource, task or operating system monitors available in the Linuxverse, that is, for the free and open operating systems that we usually call Distros or GNU/Linux Distributions. Specifically, we told them about the terminal task monitor (CLI) called Bpytop. Which has as its creator the same as others known as BashTop and BTop, both also for terminal.
While, further back in time, we have told you about others that are graphical applications for the desktop, and, therefore, many more friendly, attractive and with many more integrated functions. Being a good example of these, the so-called SysMonTask and WSysMon. Both very similar to Windows Task Monitor. Therefore, today we will introduce you to 2 more Desktop (GUI) for the knowledge and implementation of those who see it useful and necessary on their various GNU/Linux Distros. And these are named: «System Monitoring Center and Mission Center».
Bytop: An elegant and robust resource monitor for the terminal
And, before starting this post about the acquaintances task monitors «System Monitoring Center and Mission Center», we recommend you explore the previous related post, at the end of it:
2 Useful Task Monitors: System Monitoring Center and Mission Center
About System Monitoring Center
About the application System Monitoring Center we can comment briefly, after exploring and analyzing the content of its official website on GitHub, the next:
It is a free and open development that offers a free, multi-platform desktop application (GNU/Linux, MacOS and Windows), under an all-in-one format, to monitor the statistics of essential system resources, thus eliminating, the need to use different tools for this purpose. Therefore, with it any user can see the details of the system performance and the details of the use of the CPU, RAM, Disk, Network, GPU, Sensors, the use and startup of the OS and more. Finally, it is an app with a very striking and innovative interface, based on GTK3 and Python 3.
Currently, it has 2 versions available, which are the following:
- One based on GTK3: Which today is available under version number 1.43.11 from August 2023. These versions only include various error corrections and installers in .deb format.
- One based on GTK4: Which today is available under version number 2.24.0 from October 2023. These versions include new features and various bug fixes, as well as installers in .deb format and Flatpak.
About Mission Center
About the application Mission Center we can comment briefly, after exploring and analyzing the content of its Official website, the next:
It is a modern application for monitoringthe use of the CPU, Memory, Disk, Network and GPU of any GNU/Linux computer. Therefore, ands capable of displaying CPU usage, overall or by thread; display each system process, the number of threads and drivers; show RAM usage and installed Swap; display disk utilization usage and transfer rates used; display network usage and transfer speeds used; show information about the network interfaces and the installed GPU, among many other things.
Currently, this application created with GTK4 and Libadwaita, and through the Rust programming language it is only available in Flatpak format or directly your source code for compilation. As of today, the current version available is number 0.3.2 from August 2023.
Summary
In summary, once again it is clear that on our GNU/Linux Terminals or Desktops We can use a good number of applications, tools or resources for the same function. And in the case of monitoring resources, tasks and the operating system in general, for ordinary users, two good options are the well-known ones task monitors «System Monitoring Center and Mission Center», plus SysMonTask and WSysMon. Of course, as long as we do not like or use the native solutions for this, which are usually offered by the most used and complete GNU/Linux desktop environments.
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