Stress-test your CPU

Over the past few years, we’ve introduced a blend of powerful and robust as well as nifty and nimble command-utilities that help you perform a variety of tasks. Everything from everyday text editing, connecting with remote machines, performing backups and other administration tasks can be done from the terminal.

A key matrix for determining the vitality of a Linux distro, or the hardware that it runs on, is system performance. Depending on your purpose, you can choose from a variety of dedicated tools to monitor the different components such as CPU frequency, temperature and memory utilisation. But if you favour the CLI, like us, you’ll rather enjoy working with.