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 khatus
 ======
+![mascot](mascot.jpg)
 
-My ad-hoc, text-only status bar scripts I use with `dwm` on GNU/Linux.
+Experimental system-monitor and status (bar) reporter I use with
+[dwm](https://dwm.suckless.org/) on GNU/Linux.
 
-![screenshot](screenshot.jpg)
+![screenshot](screenshot.png)
+
+Experiments
+-----------
+The approaches experimented-with so far (later versions do not _necessarily_
+obsolete earlier ones, they're just different):
+
+| Name   | Status   | Language  | Tested-on               | Description |
+|--------|----------|-----------|-------------------------|-------------|
+| __x1__ | Archived | Bash, AWK |            Ubuntu 16.04 | Single, synchronous script, saving state in text files. |
+| __x2__ | Legacy   | Bash, AWK | Debian 10, Ubuntu 18.04 | Sensors are child processes, IPC via parent pipe. |
+| __x3__ | Archived | OCaml     | Debian 10               | Re-write and refinement of __x2__ |
+| __x4__ | Archived | Dash, AWK | Debian 10               | Sensors are opaque daemons, cache is a file tree |
+| __x5__ | Current  | C         |            Ubuntu 18.04 | Sensors are opaque daemons, IPC via `select`ed FIFOs. |