Microsoft to Launch Linux Version of Sysinternals

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First step: bringing ProcDump to the Linux world

Microsoft has started work on a Linux version of Sysinternals, with one integrated application already available for Linux developers on GitHub.

Microsoft’s focus on the Linux world has increased substantially in the last couple of years, and the software giant has totally embraced the world which was previously considered forbidden territory for anything Microsoft.

The Windows Subsystem for Linux, which allows developers to run Linux on top of Windows 10, is living proof that the company wants to bring together the two ecosystems. And the next step towards this purpose appears to be launching a Linux version of Sysinternals.

The company’s developers have already started working on bringing ProcDump to Linux, and developers can give it a try right now using the package available on GitHub.

“ProcDump is a Linux reimagining of the classic ProcDump tool from the Sysinternals suite of tools for Windows. ProcDump provides a convenient way for Linux developers to create core dumps of their application based on performance triggers,” the developing team explains on GitHub.

More tools on their way

In order to run ProcDump on Linux, devs need at least Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Mageia 6, Fedora 26, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS 7, gdb 7.6.1 or newer and zlib. Microsoft says it’s already testing support on other Linux distributions, and the company explains that devs should send requests to the company in this regard.

Microsoft developer Mario Hewardt confirmed on Twitter that Sysinternals is coming to Linux, but for now, no ETA has been provided as to when additional applications would be released.

However, given that the porting job has already started, it should take too long before the company releases other Linux versions of its Sysinternals applications. As usual, Microsoft recommends devs to participate in the porting work, and says that it’s waiting for their input on what they want to see coming to Linux in the near future.

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