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Mission Center 1.1.0 added CPU Power Draw & Revamped Services Page

Last updated: November 12, 2025 — Leave a comment

Mission Center, the popular Linux system monitor and task manager app, released new 1.1.0 version today.

The new release of this free open-source app improved CPU monitoring support. It can now display the amount of electrical energy that CPU consumes in watts.

It works by reading /sys/class/powercap/intel-rapl*/energy_uj for CPU power draw. The file is however unreadable by default for security reason. Meaning user needs to grant read access permission by running the command below in terminal:

sudo chmod a+r /sys/class/powercap/intel-rapl*/energy_uj

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Task Manager App Resources 1.9.0 Added Intel Xe Driver Support

Last updated: October 29, 2025 — Leave a comment

Resources, the modern task manager and system monitor app for Linux desktop, released new 1.9.0 version few days ago.

The new release of this free open-source application added more languages support, more display options, bug-fixes and improvements.

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Mission Center 1.0 Added SMART Data & Per App Network Monitoring

Last updated: May 5, 2025 — Leave a comment

Mission Center, the popular free open-source system monitoring and task managing app for Linux Desktop, release new 1.0.0 version few days ago.

Like Resources, it’s a modern GTK4 tool to monitor CPU, GPU, Memory, Storage and Network devices, while being able to manage running apps, processes, as well as background services.

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Resources 1.8 Added Monitoring Raspberry Pi GPU & CPU Temperature

Last updated: April 7, 2025 — Leave a comment

Resources, the free open-source system monitor and task manager app for Linux desktop, released new 1.8.0 version recently with new features.

Resources is a simple yet powerful monitor app written in Rust. It uses GTK 4 for its modern user interface that’s well integrated with GNOME Desktop, and Libadwaita for an adaptive interface that works great in different screen sizes.

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Mission Center – Modern Task & Service Manager App for Linux

Last updated: July 23, 2024 — Leave a comment

Looking for a system monitor, task manager, and service manager app for your Linux Desktop? Try Mission Center!

It’s a free open-source application written in Rust programming language, and uses GTK4 + LibAdwaita for its modern user interface that’s well integrated into Ubuntu, Fedora Workstation, and other Linux with GNOME Desktop.

With it, you have a Windows Task Manager look like interface that can monitor your CPU, Memory, Disk, Network and GPU usage with graphs.

Mission Center

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GNOME Has New System Load (CPU, RAM, etc) Indicator on Top Bar

Last updated: September 2, 2024 — Leave a comment

Don’t remember how many tools, I’ve written about, for monitoring CPU, RAM, Network, and other system resources usage in Ubuntu. But, there’s a brand-new for GNOME, the default desktop environment.

It’s Astra Monitor, a free open-source tool provides highly customizable interface on Gnome top-panel, to monitor CPU, GPU, RAM memory, disk storage, network usage, as well as hardware temperature, voltage, and fan speed.

It supports displaying the data in real-time bar, history graph, percentage number, with user selected order, in left, center, or right corner of panel.

Aster Monitor on GNOME Panel

Besides having quick glance at system resource usage, user can also click on the indicator icon to pop-up a rich drop-down menu with detailed information. By moving cursor over the menu can also display even more about the hardware, resource load, processes, and so forth.
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