- screen for accessing servers
- lshw for seeing Linux server hardware config
- cfengine for automating my system administration
Pkgsrc is a cross-platform package management system, originating w/ NetBSD project... I've used it on NetBSD and MacOS successfully. Should work with pretty much any *nix-like system.
[edit: though it doesn't appear "fully-integrated". Example: pressing 's' to run strace(1) doesn't work in NetBSD, which uses ktrace(1). Maybe configurable; I haven't got that far...
http://www.atoptool.nl/downloadatop.php
atop uses color to show when a subsystem goes over warn/critical threshold. it can be run in present time, or can be used to go back in time and "play back the tape"
If you got a SMP system every core got his one graph, which wasnt available in top.
At least, its the best alternative to top, in my opinion!
TTY & ncurses, what a sad state of affairs.
TTY is keeping you down : http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Removing_The_Big_Kernel_Lock2
Rob Pike was right in 1991 : "Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad."
Plan9 is now older than Unix was when Plan9 was started. Operating System research is dead.
