Torsmo, Light and Geeky Monitoring Applet.
by David Sudjiman ~ June 28th, 2005. Filed under: News.There are many softwares available to monitor your system and present it to your desktop. If you want to get back about 10 years ago, you might still remember about DockApps. A small square on the edge of your desktop showing information about your system. Later, the beautiful gDesklets comes to satisfy your eyes. Torsmo, it does not come as beauty as DockApps or gDesklets but it is just what some people might need. Torsmo is very light, easy to install and use.
The Torsmo project started about in the mid-year of 2004 by Hannu ‘Hipo’ Saransaari and Lauri ‘BioNik’ Hakkarainen. Currently, the latest release is 0.18 and provide several parameters to monitor your system such as Kernel version, Uptime, System time, Network interface information, Memory and swap usage, Hostname, Machine, System name, Temperatures, Battery, Number of processes running or sleeping, Local mails (unread and all), Filesystem stats. More than that, Torsmo is capable to execute a shell command if you need to use your own monitoring script like for examples weather report from particular website, mp3, and even RSS.