[OmniOS-discuss] how can i use handy utilities like top, htop, nano, etc in omniOS.

[Chris Nehren]

On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 16:47:20 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> i hope you guys are not getting bothered with my linux to unix comparative
> questions. because the time when i migrated from MS windows to Linux i had
> same comparative question.
> 
> As working in linux i am very use to and kinda dependent on some small
> utilities like
> nano
> htop
> dstat
> and count less other utilities.
> is there any way to run those softwares in OmniOS.

nano is available in the omniti-ms repository. htop, if it's
anything like top, is horrible for CPU usage:
http://www.brendangregg.com/DTrace/prstatvstop.html

As for dstat, illumos follows the Unix philosophy of small tools
that do one thing well at least in this regard. We have separate
stat utilities for different aspects of system performance, and
we have DTrace, which can do far more than dstat ever will.

You may find the Unix rosetta stone useful:
http://bhami.com/rosetta.html

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Chris Nehren