A Linux version of the Procmon Sysinternals tool

Looks like btop but M$.

The sysinternals guys (Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell) and code, at least most of it, existed independently of microsoft for many years. It was great. So great MS bought it and brought it and them inside. Russinovich is CTO of Azure now or something. So sysinternals is now random MS hires but I like to think it's still not really a microsoft product, just owned and mantained by them.

I was a windows user till XP came out and I've missed sysinternals tools. I'm going to enjoy this on my newer kernel machines. Seems to require some pretty cutting edge features.

Awesome you knew their names! I have connected with Bryce through his development of Go Map!! For open street maps.

They are celebs in windows security. Mark's name is synonymous with windows internals, he wrote the definitive textbook.

And he also is the one that uncovered the Sony CD rootkit fiasco.

Darn I'm getting old.

Tangent: Mark Russinovich (Jun 20, 2025): “I had the thrill of a lifetime, hosting dinner for Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds and David Cutler. Linus had never met Bill, and Dave had never met Linus.“

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/markrussinovich_i-had-the-thr...

It was truly great for Windows, no doubt about that.

Now, is it great for Linux? Absolutely not. These tools existed to vaguely resemble the capabilities we have had on *nix for decades and I'm not sure what kind of value could they bring back to Linux... like, really, what? A different, Microsoft-style optics to look at processes?

The phrasing implies that meeting someone is not bi-directional.