System Information Software

PaulAnthony · 12-18-2019, 04:06 AM

New to Bohdi. Want to install software that give me System Information about my hardware (and OS). Looking at the options available in the installer, there doesn't seem to be any, which seems a bit of a shortcoming.

I have installed Synaptic, and am comfortable using that, but wondered what package is going to give 'the best fit' with Bohdi. On LXLE I use hardinfo, would that be a sensible choice for Bohdi, or is there something more suitable?

hazel · 12-18-2019, 10:52 AM

What about conky? or gkrellim?

frankbell · 12-18-2019, 08:35 PM

You can find a lot of information using various command line tools, such as top and htop, lspci, free, du, df, and many others. See their respective man pages for more information.

If you are looking for a GUI tool, hardinfo is a very nice job of work. I would be surprised if it were not in the repos.

cordx · 12-19-2019, 12:11 AM

hardinfo appears to be available:

Quote:

apt list hardinfo
Listing... Done
hardinfo/bionic 0.5.1+git20180227-1 amd64

Randy4bodhi · 12-22-2019, 06:15 PM

Agree with Cordx, hardinfo will be a good choice.

kozaki · 12-29-2019, 06:14 AM

Inxi, not only because choice but also because it's available on the repos and is freakin neat, e.g:

Code:

$ inxi -b
System:    Host: gwenaelbodhi Kernel: 4.9.0-6-686 i686 bits: 32 Console: tty 1 Distro: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Machine:   Device: portable System: Dell product: Inspiron 1012 v: A12 serial: N/A
           Mobo: Dell model: 00D2K7 v: A12 serial: N/A BIOS: Dell v: A12 date: 03/22/2011
Battery    BAT1: charge: 16.7 Wh 50.6% condition: 33.0/57.7 Wh (57%)
CPU:       Single core Intel Atom N450 (-MT-) speed/max: 1000/1667 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller
           Display Server: N/A driver: intel tty size: 144x73 Advanced Data: N/A out of X
Network:   Card-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller driver: r8169
           Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) driver: ath9k
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 120.0GB (40.2% used)
Info:      Processes: 156 Uptime: 10 days Memory: 254.4/2009.8MB Init: systemd runlevel: 5
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.56

'-b' stands for basic aka system/hardware summary, but one can also display:
'-C' for cpu
'-G' for gpu
'-D' for your disks
'-S' for system
Can add 'x' or 'xx' to each option for eXtra detail.
homepage http://smxi.org/docs/inxi.htm