Linux-- I want to learn to love it, but there are just some serious annoyances at not knowing my way around. I'm going to figure them out and post them here so that I remember them, have a reference to go back to, and might even help someone else too.
I am looking at my desktop computer with the Ubuntu operating system installed. To get help, you often have to tell someone stats about your system. How do you find them? Let's see...
Click on the desktop
Mouse over the upper black bar
Click Help
Click Ubuntu Help
A window pops up that says "Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS," so that's the version I have. Ok, so that was easy to figure out and easy to remember. The more official way to check it is:
Click on Dash Home (top icon in the tray of icons)
Type system settings
Hit enter
Click details (bottom row)
Now I can see all kinds of details about my machine.
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Memory: 1.8 GiB
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo DPU E8400 @ 3.00 GHz x 2
Graphics: Unknown
OS type: 64-bit
Disk: 155.6 GB
From here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS I learned that 12.04 is the most recent "Long Term Support" version, so I'm happy with that.The next version comes out in 2014.
In the terminal there are a couple commands to get similar info:
ReplyDeleteOS information (works on many newish Linux distros):
lsb_release -a
RAM/CPU/disk info: (works anywhere)
free -m
less /proc/cpuinfo
df -h
Various cool ls* commands, some old, some new, not always installed by default.
lspci
lsusb
lscpu
lsblk
lsmod
sudo lshw | less
(lshw takes a moment to run but is surprisingly detailed)