GKrellM!

> Here's some instructional or unusually interesting links about GKrellM: > * Mike Edwards wrote a PHP library http://php-gkrellm.sourceforge.net
useful for PHP developers who want to get information out of a gkrellmd server. > * William Stearns' gkrellmd over SSH tutorial. > * Christopher Carey shows how you can even monitor a TiVo with gkrellmd. http://chriscarey.com/software/tivo/
> * And Bryson Borg has done a similar gkrellmd port for a firmware modified Linksys WRT54G router. http://chriscarey.com/software/gkrellm/wrt54g/
> GKrellM requires **Gtk+ 2.4** or newer. > The GKrellM server (gkrellmd requires only **GLib 2.32** or newer and may be installed on servers that do not have Gtk+ or X11. See the INSTALL file. > * **Linux: ** data is read from the /

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