This free Linux tool makes it easy to check your PC battery and disk usage - here's how

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ZDNET's key takeaways

  • Mission Center has a major update.
  • New features include memory compression and battery stats.
  • The app is free to use and install on most Linux distros.

Mission Center is a system monitoring app for Linux that very quickly became my go-to. It offers real-time CPU, memory, disk, and network usage monitoring; information on real-time app and process resource usage; the ability to stop or force stop running applications; configurable update speeds; process state merging; and can remember sorting (filtering).

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Recently, the developers behind Mission Center have released an upgrade that adds some pretty key bits of system information that might well have you switching from whatever system monitor you're using.

Now, you'll find the inclusion of three new options:

  • Battery
  • Memory...

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